![]() ![]() Synthesizing the on-going debate concerning Herbert's Anglo-Catholic or Reformed Protestant leanings, it characterizes Herbert's experience of divine love as an ambivalent one. The first part of this study (The Habit of Mind) views Herbert's experience of subjectivity in a theological context. ![]() Taking these respective approaches as a point of departure, this dissertation argues that the theological and the courtly experience of love represent Herbert's attempts to negotiate the terms of his subjectivity in a loving relationship with his God. In both cases, the experience of love as a personal expression of cultural values has been neglected. Scholars have long recognized the significance of love in Herbert's poetry, but they have tended to focus their discussions either on love as a theological idea or as a literary convention. AbstractFrom his earliest poems George Herbert demonstrates a desire to cast his relationship to God in terms of a loving relationship. ![]()
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