Why 17th-century poet George Herbert is making a comeback. "I blame George Herbert for me becoming a Christian," Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, an Anglican priest, wrote recently for The Guardian. Reading ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Christian liturgical season of Lent opens today, on Ash Wednesday. As our Poem of the Day, by the English metaphysical poet and divine George Herbert (1593–1633) declares, “Welcome, dear feast of ...
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