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“Homely Phrases”: Revisiting the Simplicity Paradox in George Herbert’s Poetry
If we hear the same old dove Singing in the same old tree, Might this bring us back to love And beautiful simplicity?[1] God only is, writes Thomas Browne, all others…are something but by a distinction. (Religio Medici, I, 35) To read Herbert’s poems is to experience the dissolution of the distinctions by which all […]