The Altar (poem)
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title:
The Altar (poem)
text:
"The Altar" is a shaped poem by the Welsh-born poet and Anglican priest George Herbert, first published in his posthumous collection The Temple (1633). The poem is founded on a Baroque metaphor with a long history of prior use of coalescing verbal and visual image. The popularity of the collection in which it appeared is attested by eleven editions during the 17th century and a musical setting of this particular poem in 1671.
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Poem by George Herbert
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Altar_(poem)
date created:
2018-01-02T23:26:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T07:28:23Z
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