The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne.(Book Review)

Hollins Critic | February 1, 1983| | Copyright

The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. By Sharon Cadman Seelig. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. $16.50 (h.b.)

Miss Seelig takes for herself the unexceptionable thesis stated by Joan Bennett in 1953 that "metaphysical poetry [was] written by men for whom the light of day is God's shadow" (latined by Sir Thomas Browne as "lux est umbra dei"), by men who "saw in nature," "in the Book of Creatures," "traces of the eternal," who read "in a single passage or event several ... levels of meaning" (p. 1). Such an ...

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