George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets（乔治•赫伯特和17世纪宗教诗歌）

This volume presents the major works of five poets George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henri, Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetD', the important secular verse of Man,ell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from The Temple, and two early poems from lsaak Walton's Lives are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poems from Steps to The Temple, Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro: Man,ell by eighteen selections from Miscellaneous Poems; Vaughan by forty-five poems from Silex Scintillans, Parts 1 and II; and Traherne by Twelve poems from the Dobell Folio, The Third Century, and the Burney Manuscript.
　　All of the texts have been freshly edited, and spelling has been modernized. "Textual Notes" specifies the procedures followed and gives the reasons for certain new readings. The poems are copiously annotated in order to clarify unfamiliar allusions and images. The Annotated Bibliography covers historical and cultural background, the lives and works of the individual poets, and several important areas of religion especially relevant to the poems.
　　A broad range of critical viewpoints is represented in essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Anthony Low, L. C. Knights, E. B. Greenwood, Joseph H. Summers, Douglas Bush, Helen C. White, Austin Warren, Richard Strier, Frank Kermode, William Empson, M. C. Bradbrook, M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Edward S. LeComte, Karina Williamson, Dennis Davison, Robert Ellrodt, E. C. Pettet, S. Sandbank, Arthur Clements, H. M. Margooliouth, and Stanley Stewart.
　　THE EDITOIOR: MAPdO A. DI CESARE is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia Universitv His honors have included fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the S.U.N.Y Foundation, and the Robert Frost Library. Among his publications are: Vida's Christiad and Vergilian Epic; The Altar and the City: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid; A Concordance to the Complete Writings of George Herbert (with Rigo Migani); The Tanner Manuscript of George Herbert's "The Temple" (prepared in collaboration with Amy Charles); and numerous scholarly articles.
　　ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology, o{" the author's life and'work.

Preface
The Texts of the Poems
　George Herbert
　　From The Temple (1633)
　　The Altar
　　The Sacrifice
　　The Thanksgiving
　　The Reprisal
　　The Agony
　　Good Friday
　　Redemption
　　Sepulchre
　　Easter Wings
　　Easter
　　H. Baptism (Ⅰ)
　　H. Baptism (Ⅱ)
　　Sin (Ⅰ)
　　Affliction (Ⅰ)
　　Prayer (Ⅰ)
　　[Prayer (Ⅱ)]
　　The H. Communion
　　[Church Lock-and-Key]
　　Love I
　　Love II
　　The Temper (Ⅰ)
　　The Temper (Ⅱ)
　　Jordan (Ⅰ)
　　Employment (Ⅰ)
　　The H. Scriptures Ⅰ
　　The H. Scriptures Ⅱ
　　Whitsunday
　　Grace
　　Church Monuments
　　Church Music
　　The Windows
　　The Quiddity
　　The Star
　　　Sunday
　　　Anagram
　　　Employment (Ⅱ)
　　　Denial
　　　Christmas
　　　The World
　　　Vanity (Ⅰ)
　　　Virtue
　　　The Pearl. Matth. 13.45
　　　Affiiction (Ⅳ)
　　　Man
　　　Life
　　　Mortification
　　　Jordan (Ⅰ)
　　　Obedience
　　　The British Church
　　　The Quip
　　　Iesu
　　　Dialogue
　　　Dullness
　　　Sin's Round
　　　Peace
　　　The Bunch of Grapes
　　　The Storm
　　　Paradise
　　　The Size
　　　Artillery
　　　The Pilgrimage
　　　The Bag
　　　The Collar
　　　Ioseph's Coat
　　　The Pulley
　　　The Search
　　　The Flower
　　　The Son
　　　A True Hymn
　　　Bitter-sweet
　　　Aaron
　　　The Forerunners
　　　Discipline
　　　The Banquet
　　　The Elixir
　　　A Wreath
　　　Death
　　　Doomsday
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Richard Crashaw
Andrew Marvell
Henry Vaghan
Thomas Traherne
Textual Notes
Annotated Bibliography