Esoteric Religion
Vertical readings of Herbert's The Temple - TLS Highlights - Times Online:
"If these readings appear strange and unfamiliar, they derive from reading Herbert in a strange and unfamiliar way: vertically. Herbert's much-admired collection of religious verse, The Temple, published in 1633, contains innumerable acrostics and anagrams, discoverable by reading the first letter of each line down the left-hand column of text. These acrostics, virtually unnoticed in writing about Herbert for 375 years, give insight into poems that aregenerally considered to be among the finest and most famous religious lyrics in English."
"If these readings appear strange and unfamiliar, they derive from reading Herbert in a strange and unfamiliar way: vertically. Herbert's much-admired collection of religious verse, The Temple, published in 1633, contains innumerable acrostics and anagrams, discoverable by reading the first letter of each line down the left-hand column of text. These acrostics, virtually unnoticed in writing about Herbert for 375 years, give insight into poems that aregenerally considered to be among the finest and most famous religious lyrics in English."
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