George Herbert, Priest and Poet

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George Herbert, Kenneth Mason

ISBN: 978-0-7283-0083-5

LENGTH: 32 pages

Fairacres Publications 74

1980 6/2003

The anguish of the poet George Herbert on feeling called to the priesthood, his vision of it, and his total dedication combine to inspire and encourage us in our desire to serve God.

George Herbert’s anguish when he sensed that God was calling him to become a priest, his almost mystical vision of the priestly office, and the total dedication with which he finally embraced it, provide us with inspiration and encouragement in our own desire to serve God. In this perceptive study of four of Herbert’s best-loved poems, ‘The Collar’, ‘Love’, ‘Aaron’, and ‘The Flower’, Kenneth Mason shows how Herbert’s way with words illuminates God’s ways with the human heart.

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ISBN

978-0-7283-0083-5

Length

32 pages

Author

George Herbert, Kenneth Mason

ISSN

0307-1405

Book Size

140 x 210 mm

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Author Bio

George Herbert died at the age of 39, in March 1633. A month before, he had given the manuscript of his poems to an emissary of Nicholas Ferrar, who had it copied out and then printed as The Temple. In the preface to that popular book, Vaughan would have learned that Herbert was ‘nobly born’, but had given up on a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, ‘choosing rather to serve at God’s Altar’. In 1630, Herbert became rector of Bemerton, near Salisbury, where he remained for the rest of his short life.

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Kenneth Mason, born in 1931, was ordained priest in 1959. After eleven years in parish ministry in the Diocese of York, he moved to Canterbury, where he was engaged from 1969 to 1989 in ministerial training and education. He was then Principal of Coates Hall, the Episcopal Theological College in Edinburgh, until 1995. He now lives in retirement in the Diocese of Ripon.

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