...poetic rhetoric is of no value for praising God: all the poet need 'plainly' say is 'My God, my King'. Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true but painted chair? Cf. Moore (1989). 151 70. Is this a point where I began to reify? Two poems worth pondering upon in...

...endeavour? We count three hundred, but we miss: 30 There is but one, and that one ever. Jordan (I) Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...stair? May no lines pass, except they do their duty 5 Not to a true, but painted chair? It is no verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow...

...Porch," st. 1, The Temp/e(1633). Repr. in The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). 36 Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? GEORGE HERBERT, (1593-1633) British poet, clergyman, "lordan (I)", st. 1, The Temp/e(1633). Repr. in...

...dwelt. Again the poet George Herbert provides some basic questions: Jordan (I) Who says that fiction only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth...their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? Is it no verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbors shadow coarse-spun lines? Must purling streams...

...of alternating lines give more the pleasure of surprise and of satisfaction after a little suspense: Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? (GEORGE HERBERT, "Jordan(I)") In the old English ballads, only the second and fourth lines of the four-line...

...(I)" by Williams's contemporary and fellow Cambridge scholar George Herbert: Who says that fichons only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth...except they do their duty Not to a true but painted chair?39 Herbert's allusions to the false fronts of hair and painted inventions and the way he links...

...theories also relate the structuring of the universe: apparently from out of nothing, something. In asking 'Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?', George Herbert typified the seventeenth century in marking the passing of the understanding of the...

...no beautie? Is all good structure in a winding stair? May no lines passe, except they do their dutie Not to a true, but painted chair? Is it not verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow coarse-spunne lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be vail'd while he that...

...himself to efface or disfigure his goal as he returned again and again toward it. Like Herbert he asks, "Who says that fictions only and false hair / Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?"" Consequently, he had to be ever on his guard to suppress any proclivity to pollute the real by personal...

...of verity in artistic creation. The same issue is dealt with in the opening lines of 'Jordan (1)': 'Who says that fictions only and false hair/ Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?' 18 Yet, there is a consistent difference between the two poems. While Herbert uses the antithesis I...