Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two articles begin a special issue in Connotations on Herbert and Nature, to be completed with three more in 2024. Both articles reconsider the critical tendency to overlook Herbert’s interest in the created world. Katherine Calloway’s ‘A Particular Trust: George Herbert and Epicureanism’ (Connotations 32[2024] 114–44) brings to light Herbert’s engagement with Lucretius, arguing that Herbert, like Donne and Bacon, preferred atomism to the Aristotelian account of the elements. In ‘Providence’ Herbert, like Lucretius, uses poetry to account for the cosmos, but for Herbert the account of a world crumbling to dust highlights God’s active providential care for it. Epicurean securitas gives way to Christian faith. Similarly, Debra K. Rienstra’s ‘“I Wish I Were a Tree”: George Herbert and the Metamorphoses of Devotion’ (Connotations 32[2024] 145–64) freshly points to a pagan text as a key resource for Herbert. Rienstra considers ‘Affliction (1)’ and the line ‘I wish I were a tree’ as the expression of an Ovidian desire for transformative escape from a condition of instability and suffering into the relief of fixity. As she notes, Herbert’s tree-desires come when God seems most Ovidian, most capricious. Having established the connection to Ovid, she accounts for Herbertian figuration itself as transformative in that, following Ovid, it creates a tension between identity and form leading to self-examination. The larger pattern of The Temple is a slow-motion fragmentation, though here unlike in Ovid, the ultimate transformation is toward Communion.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".