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Jackson, Simon (2014) Putting things in perspective : Herbert's 'Sinne (II)'. George Herbert Journal, 38 (1 & 2). pp. 120-134. ISSN 1931-1192.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ghj.2016.0004
Abstract
In his second meditation on the nature of ‘Sinne’, Herbert concludes that ‘devils are our sinnes in perspective’. This final line is regularly read by critics in two important ways – either in terms of a ‘perspective glass’ or telescope, by which we see our sins magnified; or, as in Wilcox’s gloss, as a picture giving ‘a distorted or fantastic impression’. Such readings are informed, of course, by anamorphic paintings like Holbein’s…
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | George Herbert Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | George Herbert Journal | ||||||
ISSN: | 1931-1192 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 1 & 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 120-134 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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