Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God

by R.S. Thomas, George Herbert, William J. McGill

George Herbert (1593-1633) and R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), each a major English poet and an Anglican priest, lived in very different times, one before the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and industrialization, and one following. Yet the two men and their poetry bear striking resemblances: Both loved nature and music, both were pacifists, and both struggled with the claims of faith, the nature of the spiritual life, and the recurrent silences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786416939
• ISBN13: 9780786416936
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher