To English poetry George Herbert made a notable contribution, — he devised the religious love-lyric. This forms his substantial claim to originality. To state, illustrate, and qualify that claim is ...

As we remarked this past Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), in his 1946 Sewanee Review essay “What Is Minor Poetry,” takes up the “very interesting case” of George Herbert (1593–1633). What is it ...

Here you have it — 18 lines of the most exquisite poetry from the devotional poet George Herbert. LEFT: Robert White’s 1674 portrait of George Herbert, from the UK’s National Portrait Gallery. RIGHT: ...

This article situates George Herbert’s poem The Church Militant in new Neo-Latin contexts. Rather than reading the poem in relation to Herbert’s English poetry, as has often been done before, it ...