Digitization of Shape Poetry in The Temple by George Herbert

About

As a past Kaplan Scholar at Northwestern, I brought my education full circle by taking Humanities 325 (Technologies of Language) in winter 2017. In this class, we discussed the philosophy of language, and, much to my enjoyment, got to tackle digitization of an old book of our choice. I chose Herbert's The Temple because I saw digitizing shape poetry as an interesting design challenge. How could I recreate the original experience of reading a book of shape poems online? This repository reflects my exploration of and efforts to answer this question.

Selected Poems

• "The Altar"
• "The Collar"
• "Easter-wings"
• "The Pulley"
• "Superliminare"
• "The Windows"