George Herbert

About this book

George Herbert, the parson-poet of seventeenth-century England, is considered one of the best lyric poets who has written in the English language. His major work is The Temple. -- Content: Part I: Time and The Temple - The Life - Religion -- Part II: The Conception of Form - The Proper Language -- Part III: The Poem as Hieroglyph - Verse and Speech - Music - Allegory and Sonnet: A Traditional Mode and a Traditional Form - Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Temple Explained and Improved -- Appendix B: Bacon and Herbert.