{"id":21581,"date":"2016-03-27T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2016-03-27T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:26:28","slug":"easter-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2016\/03\/easter-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"Easter Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:496px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/90174828\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:69.556452% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/90174828?et=SF5nCUiDQXxTClgYl3xgYw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=U7snm7DDq3L5psFp1Dqa2NZvh6vLM3s9dhkAfN4Dg2Y=\" width=\"496\" height=\"345\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2016\/03\/easter-wings-george-herbert.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My article<\/a> for Imaginative Conservative this week is a meditation on two poems for Easter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was college student afflicted with a serious case of Anglophilia when I discovered George Herbert and his poetry. The discovery made my affliction worse. When I found that he forsook the allure of Cambridge and a court appointment and went to be the Rector of the hamlet of Bemerton in Wiltshire, my attraction to the man was complete. A few years later I would go on my own journey to become an Anglican country parson. The dream came true, and when I finally inhabited my own rural retreat on the Isle of Wight I even remembered to write some poems.<\/p>\n<p>The attractive George Herbert was born into an artistic, religious, and wealthy family. He enrolled as a student of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1609 and shone in languages, rhetoric and music. Although he intended to take holy orders, his brilliance attracted men in high places. As the University\u2019s Public Orator, Herbert drew the attention of King James I. He left Cambridge to serve in the government and as a member of parliament, but on the king\u2019s death he turned away from worldly affairs, was ordained, and retired to serve humbly in his country parish. The poet Henry Vaughan called him \u201ca most glorious saint and seer.\u201d Herbert died of consumption just thirty-nine years of age. When you visit the cathedral city of Salisbury, take a short detour to visit Herbert\u2019s grave in Bemerton Church.<span id=\"more-71967\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like the other metaphysical poets, Herbert\u2019s verse is full of sparkling wordplay, a great musical sense, and clever conceits taken from the natural and ecclesiastical world. His witty, surprising, and smart poem\u00a0<em>Easter Wings\u00a0<\/em>is a treasure of English poetry, and a fitting inspiration on Easter week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2016\/03\/easter-wings-george-herbert.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> for the full article<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images My article for Imaginative Conservative this week is a meditation on two poems for Easter: I was college student afflicted with a serious case of Anglophilia when I discovered George Herbert and his poetry. The discovery made my affliction worse. 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