George Herbert's Christian Narrative

abstract Affliction altar Anglican answer apocalypse Bacon Baconian becomes Bible biblical British Church calendar Canaan cancels catachresis Christ Christian Church Militant communion covenant death devotional divine doctrine Donne Donne's Easter episodes eschatology Eucharist fable faith figures final finds Flower formal glory God's grace grapes grief heart heaven Hebrew Hebrew Bible Herbert Holdfast holy human Hymne individual interpretation Josephs coat language less Lord Love unknown lyric matter means metalepsis metaphor narrative nature parables Paradise Paradise Lost parallel pattern peace Pearl perhaps pilgrim poems poet poet's poetic poetry praise prayer promise psalms quatrain question reading recurrent Redemption Reubenites rhetoric rhyme ritual sacraments sacred sacrifice Scriptures secular sequence Sinne social sonnet soul speaker spiritual conflict Stanley Fish stanza story suggests Temple Testament thee things thou Trinitie Sunday tropes turn universal verse visible church voice word writing YHWH