Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert

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Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert is written by Francesca Cioni and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198874405 (ISBN 10) and 9780198874409 (ISBN 13).

This book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.