""This Book of Starres"" – Learning to Read George Herbert White Paperback

\""This Book of Starres\""Learning to Read George Herbert\nAuthor(s): James Boyd White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472083374, 978-0472083374\nSynopsis\n\""A real pleasure. . . . Reading this book was like revisiting a country I thought I knew well with a guide who could show me all kinds of delights I had missed in my previous sojourns. . . . A terrific, engaging book.\"" --Michael Schoenfeldt, author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship\n\""This Book of Starres\"" is one of those all-too-rare books in which an author's love of someone's work--in this case, the seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert--leads to a journey of exploration. \nHerbert's poetry presents a special set of challenges: It is to the modern ear archaic, difficult in thought and structure, and entirely theological in character. Yet no poet is more deeply admired by those who know h.