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Simone Weil and George Herbert on love through poetry

dc.contributor.authorRoberts, H
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T14:56:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-18
dc.date.updated2022-01-19T11:37:22Z
dc.description.abstractIn two letters written shortly before she sailed from Marseille in May 1942, Simone Weil reveals the profound impact George Herbert’s ‘Love (III)’ had on her. When reciting the poem to herself during intense headaches, she had a religious experience which involved Christ descending and taking her up. This article offers a comparative case study of focused attention on poetry as a form of prayer leading to a religious experience. It offers a close reading of ‘Love (III)’ through the lens of Weil’s philosophical and spiritual writings from the last year of her life and vice-versa. The beauty of poetry on Weil’s account is analogous to the beauty of the world and hence can approach human expression of God’s will or the ineffable order of the universe.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 18 April 2023en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/fmls/cqad029
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/128472
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-9636-687X (Roberts, Hugh)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherOxford University Press / University of St Andrewsen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectSimone Weil
dc.subjectGeorge Herbert
dc.subjectlove
dc.subjectGod
dc.subjectpoetry
dc.subjectmysticism
dc.subjectprayer
dc.titleSimone Weil and George Herbert on love through poetryen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2022-01-19T14:56:49Z
dc.identifier.issn0015-8518
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1471-6860
dc.identifier.journalForum for Modern Language Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofForum for Modern Language Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-01-19
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2022-01-19
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2022-01-19T11:37:47Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2023-05-03T13:29:12Z
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© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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