{"id":14134,"date":"2014-02-21T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2014-02-21T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:43:47","slug":"my-bent-thoughts-like-a-brittle-bow-did-fly-asunder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14134","title":{"rendered":"My Bent Thoughts, like a Brittle Bow, Did Fly Asunder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, vicar of Belmont &#038; Pittington in Durham, England, and author of <i>The Essential History of Christianity<\/i> writes about how the poetry of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/belief\/2014\/feb\/17\/george-herbert-dangerous-challenge-atheism\">George Herbert opened her up to Christ<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly the poems are unashamedly intelligent. They are an example of the metaphysical school of poetry, which deliberately piled metaphor upon metaphor, and drew those metaphors from the cutting edge of contemporary science and philosophy. They flatter the reader by assuming a breadth and depth of political, theological and scientific knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The line quoted in the headline is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/181055\">Herbert&#8217;s poem &#8220;Denial&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, vicar of Belmont &#038; Pittington in Durham, England, and author of The Essential History of Christianity writes about how the poetry of George Herbert opened her up to Christ: &#8220;Certainly the poems are unashamedly intelligent. They are an example of the metaphysical school of poetry, which deliberately piled metaphor upon metaphor, and drew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Bent Thoughts, like a Brittle Bow, Did Fly Asunder&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-religion"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}