The Complete Poetry, 9780141392042
Paperback
Experience Herbert’s profound journey of love, grief, and spiritual discovery.

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  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    21 April 2015

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Summary

The Complete Poetry of George Herbert: A Journey of Grief, Hope, and Love

George Herbert, though never publishing his works, left behind some of the most profound poetry in the English language. This comprehensive volume, edited by John Drury, captures Herbert’s complete poetic works, offering a window into his innermost experiences.

Explore the depths of grief, the ascent to recovery, the flicker of hope, the sting of despair, the heat of anger, the joy of fulfillment, and …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141392042
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
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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