![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Poet as impotent lover, grown "slack / From my first entrance in," still insists on merit and serving so that, finally, God's Power forces him to partake of God's Love: "You must sit down." 2 In "Love" (III), the pull of contending wills, that of God and Man, becomes a stasis. Mulder, in a nine-page 1973 letter to Seventeenth-Century News, addresses both design and methodology in Herbert's Temple, and includes a glance at "Love" (III). A review of some of the commentaries is instructive. However, about forty years ago this approach through literary history began to give way to an approach through literary interpretation specifically by an analysis of the imagery of the poem as physical – indeed as sexual. Hutchinson would offer as a commentary on "Love" (III) a simple comparison with a very similar passage in Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint, without any argument pro or con with regard to the possibility that it was Herbert's source. Up until the middle of the last century an editor like Canon F.E. You must sit down, sayes Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit, and eat. ![]() And know you not, sayes Love, who bore the blame? My deare, then I will serve. Truth Lord, but I have marr'd them: let my shame Go where it doth deserve. ![]()
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