George Herbert
(Paperback, Main - Poet to Poet)
Publishing Details
George Herbert
By (Author) George Herbert
Edited by Jo Shapcott
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st June 2006
Main - Poet to Poet
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Poetry by individual poets
821.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 120mm, Height 197mm, Spine 8mm
86g
Description
George Herbert (1593-1633) was born in Montgomery and educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Public Orator from 1619 until 1627. After taking orders, he accepted in 1630 the living of Bemerton in Wiltshire, where the remainder of his short life was spent. The Temple, or Sacred Poems, containing almost his entire work in verse, appeared in the year of his death, and has commanded recognition ever since as a supreme contribution both to poetry and to the literature of devotion.
Author Bio
George Herbert (1593-1633) was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618 and Public Orator in 1620. He was a Greek and Latin scholar, was fluent in modern languages and an accomplished musician. In 1626 he resigned his seat in parliament and took holy orders becoming Rector of Bemerton, a tiny rural parish on Salisbury Plain, in 1630. The Temple, Herbert's great structure of poems from which the present selection is drawn, first appeared in 1633, the year of his death.
