GEORGE HERBERT
George Herbert by Robert White, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: 1593-1633
Nationality: British/Welsh
Literary Periods:
Jacobean and Caroline Period, 1603-1660
Renaissance Period, 1500-1660
Literary Movements:
Metaphysical Poets
RELATED AUTHORS
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Richard Crashaw
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John Donne
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Andrew Marvell
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Henry Vaughan
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Scribner Writers Series [Database]
Essays on the life and works of George Herbert, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
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Literature Resource Center [DATABASE]Includes entries from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
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Literature Online (LION)Biographical overview, complete bibliography, journal articles, audio & video recordings, and recommended Web sites
RESEARCH & CRITICISM
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography 
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MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Herbert scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.
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A Year with George Herbert (2011) by Since 1633, when The Temple was first published, many notable Christians have testified of their love for George Herbert's poetry. The great nineteenth-century preacher C. H. Spurgeon and his wife would sometimes read Herbert's poetry together on Sunday evenings. Richard Baxter wrote, "Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and whose business in the world is most with God." C. S. Lewis described Herbert as "a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had ever read in conveying the very quality of life as we actually live it from moment to moment . . ."Regrettably, as the years have passed, Herbert's poetry has been increasingly neglected outside the academy. Many who would love Herbert have never even heard of him. Others feel intimidated by his poetry, fearing that they do not have the education necessary to understand what Herbert has written. In this book, Jimmy Scott Orrick has made the poetry of George Herbert accessible even to those who have had no experience reading poetry. In addition to providing thorough notes for each poem, Orrick also gives basic pointers about how to read poetry. Why not follow C. H. Spurgeon's example and "have a page or two of good George Herbert" on your Sunday evenings? Those who follow this prescription will be deeply enriched for having spent A Year with George Herbert.Call Number: Miller PR3508 .O77 2011ISBN: 1610972864 -
George Herbert by "After an historical perspective on Herbert's life, poetry, and religion, Summers applies various theories to a sensitive analysis of the poems. Going beyond the usual focus on religion or wit, Summers provides enduring insights into Herbert's form and language, verse and speech, and music. His ""Poem as Hieroglyph"" remains one of the finest essays on Herbert's poetry."
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The metaphysical poets; a study in religious experience (1936) by Call Number: Colby PR549.R4 W5ISBN: 0404202853 -
Utmost Art (2014) by George Herbert has always been regarded as a man of singular piety and a poet of uncommon technical ability. Until recent times, however, he was usually thought to have written prosodically ingenious but conceptually thin verse. Mary Ellen Rickey, through a close examination of Herbert's poetry, reveals the high concentration of ideas in his verse and the richness of his imagery.Call Number: Colby PR3508 .R5ISBN: 0813154413 -
Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert (1993) by Call Number: Miller PR3508 .H64 1993ISBN: 0826208819 -
The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan (2008) by There is a kind of conscience some men keepe, Is like a Member that's benumb'd with sleepe; Which, as it gathers Blood, and wakes agen, It shoots, and pricks, and feeles as bigg as ten Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control. Of course, as theologians said, it ought to be a simple syllogism, comparing actions to God's law, and giving judgment, in a joint procedure of the soul and its maker. Inevitably, though, there are problems. Hearts refuse to confess, or forget the rules, or jumble them up, or refuse to come to the point when delivering a verdict. The three poets are beady-eyed experts on failure. After all, where subjects can only discover their authentic nature in relation to the divine it matters whether the conversation works. Remarkably, each poet - despite their very different devotional backgrounds - uses similar sets of tropes to investigate problems: enigma, aposiopesis (breaking off), chiasmus, subjectio (asking then answering a question), and antanaclasis (repetition with a difference). Structured like a language, the conscience is tortured, rewritten, read, and broken up to engineer a proper response. Considering the faculty as an uncomfortable extrusion of the divine into the everyday, the rhetoric of the conscience transforms Protestant into prosthetic poetics. It moves between early modern theology, rhetoric, and aesthetic theory to give original, scholarly, and committed readings of the great metaphysical poets. Topics covered include boredom, torture, graffiti, tattoos, anthologizing, resentment, tears, dust, casuistry, and opportunism.Call Number: Miller PR545.C673 S85 2008ISBN: 9780199547845
PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS
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The Complete English Poems (1992) by The complete English poems of George Herbert, one of the major religious poets of the 17th century. This particular book also contains as an appendix, Isaac Walton's Life of Herbert.Call Number: Miller PR3507.A2 T6 1991ISBN: 0140423486 -
George Herbert: the Temple: a Diplomatic Edition of the Bodleian Manuscript (1995) by Call Number: Miller PR3507 .T4 1995ISBN: 0866980385
