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George herbert poems list5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The first is the “poetic” voice that gives expression to Lewis’s spiritual life as revealed in his religious poetry. Yet a closer view reveals that Herbert influences Lewis in at least three profound ways. Lewis’s references to Herbert in his published writings are infrequent and widely scattered while he devotes an entire essay to Herbert’s contemporary, John Donne, Lewis never writes extensively about Herbert, even in the volume where we might most reasonably expect him to offer a concentrated discussion of Herbert, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Lewis lists among the ten most important books to shape his “vocational attitude” and “philosophy of life” George Herbert’s The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. ![]()
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