Sweetness Ready Penned”: On Velocity, Vision, and the Gifts of George Herbert’s “Jordan (2)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2021

Publication Title

Ben Jonson Journal

Volume

28

Issue

2

First page number:

286

Last page number:

291

Abstract

This is an essay about speed and integrity. At some level, it is an inquisition into the ways in which information – of a material, spiritual, and lyric nature – is transmitted in poetry more immediately (and perhaps with less loss) than might otherwise be possible in any other form. It is centered on the difference between vision and sight. This is about, as Herbert more sweetly and succinctly puts it in a different poem, “Prayer (2)”:   Of what an easy quick access, My blessed Lord, are thou! how suddenly   May our requests thine ear invade!

Controlled Subject

Herbert, George, 1593-1633; Welsh poetry; Literary criticism

Disciplines

Energy Policy | Energy Systems

UNLV article access

Search your library

Share

COinS