... evil. In the fourth stanza of Easter-Wings is the direct application of platonic imagery into the Christian notion of salvation. Herbert's use of the phrase, "I imp my wing on thine [your wing, God]" is a direct reference to Plato's notion of the winged soul. He uses the of the word imp in both the sense to repair a wing and to improve ... the Church of England's conversion to Anglicanism from the Roman Church had only been in place for a century. The impact that Saint Augustine had had on Catholicism, both in his own age and the following years can be implied by the reverence in which ...

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