The Complete Poetry

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By George Herbert

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The Complete Poetry by George Herbert is a collection of the poet's works that explores themes of faith, love, and redemption. Reflecting the poet's spirituality, the verses delve into the interplay between human vulnerability and divine grace, capturing the struggles and triumphs of the soul in a melodic and metaphysical style. As a significant voice in 17th-century devotional poetry, Herbert's works offer profound insights into the complexities of religious devotion and personal introspection.
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You might enjoy this collection if you're drawn to the rich artistic expression found in 17th-century poetry. The poems combine spiritual depth with exquisite lyrical craftsmanship and may appeal to you if appreciate poetic explorations of faith, love, and the human condition.

The Complete Poetry

George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in a variety of forms his inner experiences of grief, recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else - love. This volume collects Herbert's complete poetry - including such classics of English devotional poetry as The Altar, and Love.

Throughout, Herbert brings his 'constant wit' to bear on anger, sorrow, desperation, wonder, praise and, above all, love.

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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 classics of English devotional poetry as 'The Altar', 'Easter-Wings' and 'Love'. It also includes the verse Herbert wrote in Latin, newly translated into English by Victoria Moul.

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ISBN: 9780141392042

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Edited by John Drury
Translated by Victoria Moul

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 436g

Pages: 640

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About the Author

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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