‘“Sermons in Stones”: Augustine, Joseph Hall, and "As You Like It"

Sullivan, Ceri ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1698-7404 2016. ‘“Sermons in Stones”: Augustine, Joseph Hall, and "As You Like It". Notes and Queries 63 (3) , pp. 420-421. 10.1093/notesj/gjw143

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Abstract

Duke Senior claims the exiles’ ‘life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones’ (I.i.17–9). The Arden editor notes the three parallel metaphors on ‘homiletic edification in inanimate things’, and cross-refers to the passage in III.ii.152–154 where Rosalind remarks tartly on the boredom of listening to long sermons. The New Cambridge editor brings forward Richard Hooker on the threefold sources of Christian revelation: the bible, sermons, and the book of nature. The Oxford editor speaks of graceful platitudes, tinged with Stoicism.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0029-3970
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 June 2016
Date of Acceptance:	24 May 2016
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 11:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/91444

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