My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul

by Mark Oakley

Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul. His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope. There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him. This sense of relationship with God as primarily friendship is one of many intriguing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0281080321
• ISBN13: 9780281080328
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"