RT Article
T1 Writing Wisdom: George Herbert’s Synesthetic Poetics
JF Christianity & literature
VO 66
IS 1
SP 39
OP 56
A1 Dyck, Denae
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1559161973
AB Using synesthesia as an organizing principle, the present study analyzes George Herbert’s representations of wisdom, particularly in the poems “Submission,” “The Agonie,” “Divinitie,” and “Charms and Knots.” The trope of synesthesia reflects Herbert’s participation in both Hellenic and Hebraic traditions, for it brings together the rhetorical dexterity celebrated in Hellenic models of oration and the physical dexterity integral to Hebraic ideas of wisdom. Herbert’s synesthetic poetics, then, works not only to gather that which is Hellenic and Hebraic or classical and Christian but also to bridge word and world, spirit and flesh.
K1 “Charms and Knots"
K1 “Charms and Knots”
K1 CHARMS & Knots (Poem)
K1 “Divinitie"
K1 “Divinitie”
K1 George Herbert
K1 Herbert, George, 1593-1633
K1 Jews
K1 “Submission"
K1 “Submission”
K1 Synesthesia
K1 “The Agonie"
K1 “The Agonie”
K1 Wisdom
DO 10.1177/0148333116677459