The Poets Of The Church

In tracing George Herbert's revisionary goals as they developed through the two manuscripts of the Church, this book offers a new approach to the interpretation of his poems in showing that Herbert intended to encourage his readers to connect the separate lyrics into larger structures of meaning and also to look beyond his poetry to the Bible.

This collection of papers focuses on the literary art of early Christian poetry in Syriac, Greek and Latin. It discusses both the techniques of this art and its theoretical foundation in the Christian use of classical literary traditions.

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Excerpt from The Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-Writers; With Notes on Their Hymns Sarah Fuller was the second daughter of Benjamin Flower, "one of the fathers of English journalism." He was the son of George Flower (1710-1778), a wealthy tradesman of London, and one of the deacons of the dissenting congregation (Rev. Edward Hitchins), worshipping in White's Row, Spitalfields, and was an intimate friend and correspondent of Toplady. The wife of George Flower was a sister of Richard and William Fuller, for whom two of her sons were named. The summer residence of the family was at Tooting, Surrey. There they became attached to the society under the care of the Rev. Samuel Wilton, D.D., and when in 1776 he became the pastor of the Weigh House Chapel, Little Eastcheap, London, they, too, became members of that society. Toplady, Flower, and Wilton all died the same year - 1778. Dr. Wilton was succeeded by the Rev. John Clayton, who, in 1779, manned Mary, the elder daughter of Mrs. Flower. Of their children, three - John, George, and William - became Independent ministers, two of them London pastors of much distinction. Benjamin Flower, having been unfortunate in business, for five years served a commercial house at Rotterdam as a travelling agent, and, by his intercourse with politicians of the Continent, became a thorough radical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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