This book has been in print for almost 400 years! Today it is even available as an e-book. Not something we would normally offer, but on the other hand probably the rarest, most valuable title we have ever had the opportunity to offer to our clients. His poems about the Eucharist and holy baptism are not only general theological explorations of the sacraments but also the poet's expression of the struggles of his own flesh to be reconciled to God.ġst edition, Cambridge, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1633 Herbert's poetry is at once personal and confessional. The themes of God and love are treated by Herbert as psychological forces as much asmetaphysical phenomena. The book went through eleven editions by 1695 and The Temple has become the best-known religious poem in the English language. The Temple, actually a sequence of poems, imitate the architectural style of churches through both the meaning of the words and their visual layout. In 1633 all of Herbert's English poems were published in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, with a preface by Nicholas Ferrar.
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