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George Herbert (1593-1633)

LINKS

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/

This link connects you to the Luminarium web site containing Herbert's poetry, essays, a timeline of the poet's life, and additional links.

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=645

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on George Herbert including a biography, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and additional links.

BIOGRAPHY

A cousin of the Earl of Pembroke, George Herbert was born into a prominent Welsh family. His mother was a patron of the metaphysical poet John Donne, who dedicated his Holy Sonnets to her. Following the death of his father, Herbert attended Westminster School at age ten and then took a B.A. (1913) and an M.A. (1616) at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later became the public orator of the University and was elected a representative to Parliament in 1624-1625. Herbert also received the patronage of King James I until the latter's death in 1625. After resigning his position as orator in 1627, Herbert married Jane Danvers in 1629. The following year, he took holy orders in the Church of England and assumed the duties of vicar and rector of the Bemerton parish near Salisbury. For the next three years until his death in 1633, Herbert composed the poems that would be posthumously published as The Temple (1633). The enormous success of this work established George Herbert's reputation among the Metaphysical poets and he remains one of the major voices in Seventeenth-Century verse.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Clarke, Elizabeth. Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry : 'Divinitie, and Poesie, met.' New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Guernsey, Julia Carolyn. The Pulse of Praise : Form as a Second Self in the Poetry of George Herbert. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.

Malcolmson, Cristina. Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Ray, Robert H. A George Herbert Companion. New York: Garland Publishers, 1995.

Toliver, Harold E. George Herbert's Christian Narrative. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1993.

White, James Boyd. "This book of starres": Learning to Read George Herbert. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Wilcox, Helen. George Herbert: Sacred and Profane. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995.

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