{ "item_title" : "The Wisdom of George Herbert", "item_author" : [" Sapientia Mundi Press "], "item_description" : "A country parson, a stone church, and a body of verse that changed English poetry forever.The Wisdom of George Herbert: Faith, Form, and the Poetics of Surrender traces the life, ministry, and literary achievement of one of the most beloved devotional poets in the English language. Born into a prominent Welsh-English family in 1593, Herbert seemed destined for a career at court. He excelled at Cambridge, served as Public Orator to the university, and cultivated the connections that should have carried him to political prominence. Then he turned away. He took holy orders, accepted a modest parish near Salisbury, and spent his final three years as a country rector, tending a small congregation and composing the poems that would be published after his death as The Temple.The biographical journey from Cambridge ambition to Bemerton parish and the cost of Herbert's renunciationThe architecture of The Temple and how its three-part structure mirrors the spaces of an English churchClose readings of Herbert's greatest poems, including The Collar, Love (III), Prayer (I), and the Affliction sequenceHerbert's prose vision of the ideal pastor in A Priest to the Temple and its relationship to his verseThe influence on Vaughan, Crashaw, Traherne, and later writers from Wesley to Eliot to Simone WeilWritten for lovers of poetry, this book offers a contemplative, historically grounded portrait of a man who believed that the truths of faith should be expressed in plain language, embodied in daily practice, and shaped into forms as carefully built as the churches in which they were spoken. Herbert's poetry refuses to prettify the spiritual life. It records doubt alongside praise, frustration alongside gratitude, and rebellion alongside surrender, holding them together with a formal precision that makes the honesty bearable and the beauty earned.For anyone who has wrestled with faith, wondered whether prayer reaches its destination, or sought a poetry that speaks to the whole person rather than the intellect alone, The Wisdom of George Herbert: Faith, Form, and the Poetics of Surrender offers a guide to one of literature's most enduring and most human voices.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/481/9798184813530_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.95", "online_price" : "12.95", "our_price" : "12.95", "club_price" : "12.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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