The calling : the vocations of priest and poet
"A little aside from the main road" : country parsons
The word and the poets : the Bible
Speaking to God : prayer
The bread of truth : the Eucharist
"Faith makes me anything and all"
"One cunning bosome-sinne"
"Love bade me welcome" : "love fiercer than we can understand"
"Oh what a thing is man!"
Cross-pollination : "truth's flower"
"The sky-rhyming child" : the Incarnation
"This strange and uncouth thing" : the Good Friday poems
"To run, rise, rest with thee" : Easter
At the end.
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Poets' meeting : George Herbert, R. S. Thomas, and the argument with God by William J. McGill. ISBN 0786416939. Published by McFarland in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
