![]() ![]() The altar is where Jesus offers his own body to the faithful in the Eucharist and where the faithful offer Jesus their devotion. In this essay, written when she was in her second year of studying English at Cambridge, she guides the reader through some of the key poems in Herbert's collection, showing how the links between poetry and religious meditation raise important questions about metaphor and the privacy of reading.Īfter entering through, one of the first ports of call in Herbert's temple, or church, is the Altar: the place of sacrifice and offering. As Elizabeth Davis writes in this tour of George Herbert's temple, it is worlds away - but that's exactly what makes it such engrossing poetry. English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century might seem worlds away from the experiences of a twenty-first-century reader. ![]()
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