George Herbert : rector of Bemerton. Poems from The Temple with an Introduction

by HERBERT, GEORGE

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Sewanee, TN: Printed for the Friends of Bemerton By the University Press of Sewanee, TN. Very Good. 1976. Soft Cover. 40 pages, frontispiece, diagram, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the introduction: 'The church of St. Andrew at Bemerton, one of the holiest spots in all of England, has stood in this place for seven hundred years. It is known throughout the Anglican Communion and the literary world because one of its rectors was also one of the greatest English devotional poets.' From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: George Herbert, 1593-1633, one of the English metaphysical poets. Of noble family, he was the brother of Baron Herbert of Cherbury. He was graduated from Cambridge. His early determination to enter the church was temporarily deflected by an appointment as public orator in 1619, a post he held until 1627. In 1630 he was ordained an Anglican priest and made rector at Bemerton. Herbert's devotional poems combine a homely familiarity with religious experience and a reverent sense of its magnificence. His verse is marked by quietness of tone, precision of language, metrical versatility, and the use of conceits. All unpublished at his death, the poems were left by Herbert to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, who had them published as The Temple (1633). Herbert also wrote Latin poems and a prose manual of clerical life, A Priest of the Temple (first printed in Herbert's Remains, 1652). The 20th-century revival of interest in the metaphysical poets has stressed Herbert. .

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