The English works of George Herbert
Subtitle: newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life
By: by George Herbert Palmer ...
Contributors: Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933, ed.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Boston and New York
Language: eng
Description: "George Herbert (3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633) was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, but his scholarship attracted the attention of King James I/VI. Herbert served in parliament for two years. After the death of King James and at the urging of a friend, Herbert's interest in ordained ministry was renewed. In 1630, in his late thirties he gave up his secular ambitions and took holy orders in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as a rector of the little parish of Fugglestone St Peter with Bemerton St Andrew, near Salisbury.
Table of contents: title: I. Essays and prose.; title: II. Cambridge poems.; title: III. Bemerton poems.