Bibliography
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Books
- Oratio Qua auspicatissimum Serenissimi Principis Caroli (Cambridge, 1623).
- Memoriae Matris Sacrum, printed with A Sermon of commemoracion of the ladye Danvers by John Donne ... with other Commemoracions of her by George Herbert (London: Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1627).
- The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633).
- Herbert's Remains, Or, Sundry Pieces Of that sweet Singer of the Temple (London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1652)--comprises A Priest to the Temple: Or, The Country Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life and Jacula Prudentum Or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, & c., as well as a letter, several prayers, and three Latin poems.
Editions and Collections
- The Poetical Works of George Herbert, edited by George Gilfillan (Edinburgh: J. Nichol, 1853).
- The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse, 2 volumes, edited by William Pickering (London: W. Pickering, 1853).
- The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert, 3 volumes, edited by Alexander B. Grosart (London: Robson & Sons, 1874).
- The English Works of George Herbert, 3 volumes, edited by George Herbert Palmer (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905; revised, 1907).
- The Works of George Herbert, edited by F. E. Hutchinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941; revised, 1945).
- The Latin Poetry of George Herbert, translated by Mark McCloskey and Paul R. Murphy (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1965).
- The Selected Poetry of George Herbert, edited by Joseph H. Summers (New York: New American Library, 1967).
- Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, edited by Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York: Odyssey Press, 1973).
- The English Poems of George Herbert, edited by C. A. Patrides (London: Dent, 1975).
- George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, edited by Louis L. Martz, The Oxford Authors series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Other
- "In Obitum Henrici Principis" and "Ulteriora timens cum morte paciscitur Orbis," in Epicedium Cantabrigiense, In obitum immaturum Henrici, Principis Walliae (Cambridge, 1612).
- Luigi Cornaro, A Treatise of Temperance and Sobrietie, translated into English by Herbert, in Hygiasticon (Cambridge: Printed by R. Daniel, 1634).
- Briefe Notes on Valdesso's Considerations, in The Hundred and Ten Considerations of Signior Iohn Valdesso (Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1638).
- Outlandish Proverbs Selected by Mr. G. H. (London: Printed by T. P. for Humphrey Blunden, 1640).
- Musae Responsoriae, in Ecclesiastes Solomonis, by James Duport (Cambridge: Printed for John Field, 1662).
- The Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems, edited by Amy M. Charles (Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977)--comprises early versions of some of the poems in The Temple as well as two collections of Latin poems, Lucus and Passio Discerpta.
There are two important manuscripts of Herbert's writings still in existence. The Williams Manuscript, held in Dr. Williams's Library, London, comprises an early version and arrangement of nearly one-half of the poems of The Temple with some corrections in Herbert's own hand, and two Latin collections, Lucus and Passio Discerpta, written in Herbert's hand. The Bodleian manuscript, held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is the manuscript distributed to the licensers prior to the publication of The Temple. Other letters, orations, and records bearing Herbert's signature are located in the British Library, the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Dr. Williams's Library, and the Salisbury Diocesan Registry. Izaak Walton reports that Herbert's widow preserved many of her husband's papers but that these were burnt during the English Civil War.
