Bücher von George Herbert

George Herbert's prose and poetry is united in this combined volume, illustrating in detail the inner conflict the author felt regarding the principles of his faith and belief in God.Coming of age during the early 17th century, Herbert demonstrated a great appetite for intellectual endeavors while still a boy. While still in his twenties, he mastered Greek and Latin and was elected to the post of Public Orator at Trinity College, Cambridge. His theological knowledge and scholarly ability distinguished him from many of his peers. Throughout his life, Herbert suffered with physical infirmity and was never blessed with a strong constitution. Herbert perished of tuberculosis at the age of only thirty-nine, a mere three years after becoming ordained as a priest. As a person, he was reported to be of a gentle and caring demeanor, often going to great lengths to make his parishioners and guests comfortable. Most significantly, George Herbert left behind a substantial body of unpublished written work.

""It is difficult to conjecture how much George Herbert''s return to the spiritual life was due to the sudden failure of royal patronage, and how much to his own devotion ; but it is vain to pretend that it was at first an easy or a palatable change of front for him. ''In this time of retirement'' [in London and Kent], says Walton, ''he had many conflicts with himself, whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court life, or betake himself to a study of divinity, and enter into sacred orders, to which his mother had often persuaded him. These were such conflicts as they only can know that have endured them; for ambitious desires, and the outward glory of this world, are not easily laid aside; but at last God inclined him to put on a resolution to serve at His altar.''""--From the Introduction by Arthur WaughGeorge Herbert (1593-1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert''s poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets. He attended Trinity College in Cambridge, became the University''s Public Orator, and attracted the attention of King James I. From 1624-1625, he served in the Parliament of England. After King James died, Herbert''s interest in ordination was renewed. In his mid-thirties he took holy orders in the Church of England, and spent the rest of his life as the rector of St. Andrews Church in Lower Bemerton, Salisbury.

BY GEORGE is a delightful and heartwarming collection of childhood anecdotes and remembrances for readers of all ages and walks of life.After retiring, George Herbert Stansbury, Jr. penned his adventures as a young boy growing up in the heartland of America at the turn of the 20th century. They were part of his ongoing correspondence primarily with his older brother Paul Wood Stanbury.Along with excerpts from his letters, these recollections offer a unique perspective of what life was like for an adolescent boy growing up in Franklin, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Written at a time of notoriously lax standards in the Church of England, George Herbert's essay on the calling and work of a parish priest remains fresh and full of wisdom for all who are pursuing this vocation today.