Dear God
Claude Rawson, 4 December 1980
Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John
by A.D. Nuttall.
Methuen, 147 pp., £8.95, September 1980,0 416 73980 6 Show More
by A.D. Nuttall.
Methuen, 147 pp., £8.95, September 1980,
“... brief, stylish book, citing Herbert’s ‘Dialogue’ (‘Sweetest Saviour, of my soul …’) and asking afterwards: ‘Is God pleased with what he reads?’ Professor Nuttall’s point is that such a question would have seemed perfectly natural in the 17th century. Many of Herbert’s poems are prayers or dialogues ... ”