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GEORGE HERBERT, CHRISTIAN POETRY AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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Ward J.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2007
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vol. 98
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issue 2
107-129
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The article investigates the reception of the seventeenth-century poet George Herbert, mainly in the context of British poetry. Although the Christian content of Herbert's work is now outside the experience and even knowledge of many readers and poets, there has been a new recognition in the past half-century of elements in his poetry that accord with the contemporary climate. In the post-Adorno day, his questioning of the adequacy of language strikes a sympathetic note. The article examines some contemporary poetic responses to Herbert, many of them polemical, which show that even poets who do not share Herbert's Christian belief have been fascinated by his use of language and formal inventiveness. Particular attention is given to Herbert's importance for R. S. Thomas, who takes up many of Herbert's religious concerns in poetry permeated by yearning for an apparently absent God.
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POETRY IN SEARCH OF INTIMACY (Poezja w poszukiwaniu intymnosci)

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Kolodziejczyk E.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2008
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issue 3(111)
175-183
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In her last book, Helen Vendler describes monologues spoken to invisible readers in the poetic works of George Herbert, Walt Whitman and John Ashbery. She sets up a differentiation between a horizontal address, targeted at (a) man, and a vertical address, referring to an unattainable figure or one surpassing (a) man. Having observed the dynamic transformations of those monologues in the output of each of the said authors, Vendler pays special attention to how a traditional vertical address turns into horizontal. Her query is, why a poet should be selecting someone unattainable and, to what extent the relationships built in the poems imitate the real-life relations and reflect our contemporary standards of communication. In H. Vendler's opinion, this most intimate lyric verse becomes a source of indirect expression or revision of the said standards and thus, reveals, in her view, a significant ethical and cultural value.
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