The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's The Temple
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BOOK REVIEWS53 Richard Todd, The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's The Temple. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1986. 240 pp. $27. by Michael C. Schoenfeldt In the Preface to this study, Richard Todd admirably proposes to consider "the Herbert who can be shown to have participated very fully and eclectically in the intellectual currents of his time: a Herbert who, in short, is a highly original thinker as well os o poet" (p. viii). Unfortunately, these two Herberts rarely meet in this book, and when they do they do not get on all that well. Todd does proffer a promising model for comprehending the lectorol kinetics of Herbert's poetry, end grounds this model effectively in on intellectuel tradition which Herbert elmost certoinly knew. But this opperetus, elthough lending support to Accepted opinion, does not often substantiAlly AdvAnce our views of Herbert's poetic or intellectuAl Accomplishments. Building upon the work of Stanley Fish and the tradition of
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BOOK REVIEWS53 Richard Todd, The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's The Temple. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1986. 240 pp. $27. by Michael C. Schoenfeldt In the Preface to this study, Richard Todd admirably proposes to consider "the Herbert who can be shown to have participated very fully and eclectically in the intellectual currents of his time: a Herbert who, in short, is a highly original thinker as well os o poet" (p. viii). Unfortunately, these two Herberts rarely meet in this book, and when they do they do not get on all that well. Todd does proffer a promising model for comprehending the lectorol kinetics of Herbert's poetry, end grounds this model effectively in on intellectuel tradition which Herbert elmost certoinly knew. But this opperetus, elthough lending support to Accepted opinion, does not often substantiAlly AdvAnce our views of Herbert's poetic or intellectuAl Accomplishments. Building upon the work of Stanley Fish and the tradition of
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