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Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (review)

Richard Strier's splendid book engages the central and still highly controversial issue of Herbert's theology and its significance for his poetry, adding to the debate not more heat but a good deal of light. He does so by drawing the careful theological distinctions which good intellectual history makes possible, and by offering discriminating and persuasive readings of many Herbert poems, readings which are primarily thematic but also sensitive and attentive to poetic language. Strier's book demonstrates that the central tenets of the Reformation, particularly as experienced and articulated by Luther, constitute the thematic core of Herbert's poetry, explaining the development (and resolving the apparent cruxes) of poem after poem.