The Complete Poetry
$26.25
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2015
Summary
A wonderful edition of Herbert’s poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury, and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul.
George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences of grief, recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else - love. This volume, edited by John Drury, collects Herbert’s complete poetry - including such clas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392045 |
| Author: | George Herbert, John Drury, Victoria Moul |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
George Herbert
George Herbert was born in 1593 and died at the age of thirty-nine in 1633, before the clouds of civil war gathered. He showed worldly ambition and seemed sure of high public office and a career at court, but then for a time ‘lost himself in a humble way’, devoting himself to the restoration of a church and then to his parish of Bemerton, three miles from Salisbury. When in the year of his death his friend Nicholas Ferrar published Herbert’s poems under the title The Temple, his fame was quickly established.
John Drury is Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include The Burning Bush (1990), Painting the Word (1999), and, most recently, Music at Midnight, the culmination of a lifetime’s interest in Herbert.
Victoria Moul is Lecturer in Latin Literature and Language at Kings College London. She is author of Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (2010) and editor of Neo-Latin Literature (2014).
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