No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.īecause of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. Professor Amlan DasGupta, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India Read moreĪll rights reserved. The work also touches upon John Wesleys adaptations of Herberts poems. Professor Lims analysis of the poems in The Temple shows the depth of Herberts rhetorical studies and also provides important insights into the nature of poetic language in the English Renaissance. Written forty years ago, it exhibits a kind of scholarship and insight that has become rare these days. Lims remarkable study of George Herberts poetry goes a long way in reaffirming the importance of rhetoric in the literary world of seventeenth-century poets. Lim died from cancer in 2011, and his wife, Rema Lim, published this little-known thesis that offers a rhetorical reading of Herberts The Temple and contributes to the understanding of the man himself.Ĭ.S. He began a dissertation in 1973 as a postgraduate student at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Lim found the poems beautiful, and he had a fascination for the themes of God and death and love. A devout Christian, he loved the poetry of Donne, Marvell, and especially George Herbert. Lim had a fondness for the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century.

The Temple by George Herbert