{"id":337,"date":"2017-04-10T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:55:23","slug":"jordan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/jordan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly interested in George Herbert&#8217;s idea of the ideal form of poetry Jordan (1). He argues that poets should focus on the beauty of &#8220;truth&#8221; and the natural world, rather than fictitious stories. Herbert also addresses the language and structure of poetry: &#8220;Is all good structure in a winding stair? May no lines pass, except they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair?&#8221; Herbert is particularly critical of poetry that uses overly embellished language, which he compares to a &#8220;winding stair.&#8221; He wonders why poetry that focuses on the real world and utilizes straight forward language is not considered the ideal, and he praises pastoral poets: &#8220;Shepherds are honest people&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly interested in George Herbert&#8217;s idea of the ideal form of poetry Jordan (1). He argues that poets should focus on the beauty of &#8220;truth&#8221; and the natural world, rather than fictitious stories. Herbert also addresses the language and structure of poetry: &#8220;Is all good structure in a winding stair? May no lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}