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. George Herbert was born in 1593 and died at the age
of 39 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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