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- catalog abstract ""This Book of Starres" is one of those all-too-rare books in which an author's love of someone's work - in this case, the writings of seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert - leads him to guide the reader on a journey of exploration. James Boyd White takes the position that "literature of this quality can be read by an ordinary intelligent reader, bringing whatever he or she happens to be to the process. This is a claim for the accessibility, and also the importance, of the great works of our tradition, so often now insulated by a kind of professional barrier." Herbert's poetry presents a special set of challenges: it is to the modern ear archaic, difficult in thought and structure, and entirely theological in character. Yet no poet is more deeply admired by those who know him well. "This Book of Starres" engages its audience in a process of reading that shows this verse to be vivid and alive, speaking directly across the barriers of time and culture. It is the record of one person's life-changing involvement with Herbert's poetry; in this it is about not only how, but why we read great poetry.".
- catalog contributor b5905005.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""This Book of Starres" is one of those all-too-rare books in which an author's love of someone's work - in this case, the writings of seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert - leads him to guide the reader on a journey of exploration. James Boyd White takes the position that "literature of this quality can be read by an ordinary intelligent reader, bringing whatever he or she happens to be to the process. This is a claim for the accessibility, and also the importance, of the great works of our tradition, so often now insulated by a kind of professional barrier." Herbert's poetry presents a special set of challenges: it is to the modern ear archaic, difficult in thought and structure, and entirely theological in character. Yet no poet is more deeply admired by those who know him well. "This Book of Starres" engages its audience in a process of reading that shows this verse to be vivid and alive, speaking directly across the barriers of time and culture. It is the record of one person's life-changing involvement with Herbert's poetry; in this it is about not only how, but why we read great poetry.".
- catalog description "Attunements -- Reading the poems in light of each other -- The acceptance of love.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 292 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "This book of starres.".
- catalog identifier "0472105051 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "This book of starres.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "This book of starres.".
- catalog subject "821/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Herbert, George, 1593-1633 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR3508 .W48 1994".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Attunements -- Reading the poems in light of each other -- The acceptance of love.".
- catalog title "This book of starres : learning to read George Herbert / James Boyd White.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".