George Herbert Poetry Weekend course
“Church-bels beyond the starres heard”
Do you want to explore more of the place and poetry of George Herbert? Would you like to share your love of this poet in Salisbury Cathedral Close? Come and join us for a relaxed weekend of listening, reflecting and learning on the home soil where Herbert was parish priest. Helen Wilcox and others will lead us in close readings and reflections on the spirituality of Herbert’s poetry. The George Herbert in Bemerton Group will lead a guided walk and tour of Herbert’s Bemerton and Salisbury.
The three lectures by Helen Wilcox are entitled:
The Spirituality of Herbert’s Poetry: Relational
The Spirituality of Herbert’s Poetry: Incarnational
The Spirituality of Herbert’s Poetry: Transformational
View the plan for the George Herbert Walk
Keynote speaker
Helen Wilcox is Professor Emerita of English Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and an honorary lay canon of Bangor Cathedral.
Her research centres mainly on sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature, particularly devotional works in poetry and prose, Shakespeare, music and literature, and early women’s writing.
Her publications include Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (1989), Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 (1996), The English Poems of George Herbert (2007), 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (2014), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion (2017) and the Arden edition of All’s Well That Ends Well (2019).
She has lectured across five continents on devotional poetry in English from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, and together with Mark Oakley she is currently preparing the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Devotional Poetry. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Learned Society of Wales.
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