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Born in April 3, 1593 / Died in March 1, 1633 / United Kingdom / English

Furtherreading

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  • John R. Roberts, George Herbert: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism: Revised Edition, 1905-1984 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988).
  • Izaak Walton, The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson (London: Oxford University Press, 1927) [The life of Herbert was originally published in 1670].
  • Margaret Bottrall, George Herbert (London: John Murray, 1954).
  • Marchette Chute, Two Gentle Men: The Lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick (New York: Dutton, 1959).
  • Amy M. Charles, A Life of George Herbert (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977).
  • Heather A. R. Asals, Equivocal Predication: George Herbert's Way to God (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981).
  • Diana Benet, Secretary of Praise: The Poetic Vocation of George Herbert (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984).
  • Chana Bloch, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
  • Ira Clark, Christ Revealed: The History of the Neotypological Lyric in the English Renaissance (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1982).
  • Donald R. Dickson, The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987).
  • T. S. Eliot, George Herbert (London: Longmans, Green, 1962).
  • Stanley E. Fish, The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).
  • Fish, Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).
  • Coburn Freer, Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).
  • Sidney Gottlieb, "The Social and Political Backgrounds of George Herbert's Poetry," in "The Muses Common-Weale": Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989), pp. 107-118.
  • Gottlieb, ed., George Herbert Journal, 1977- .
  • Patrick Grant, The Transformation of Sin: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974).
  • William Halewood, The Poetry of Grace: Reformation Themes and Structures in English Seventeenth-Century Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970).
  • Barbara Leah Harman, Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982).
  • Barbara K. Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).
  • Anthony Low, Love's Architecture: Devotional Modes in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (New York: New York University Press, 1978).
  • Janis Lull, The Poem in Time: Reading George Herbert's Revisions of "The Church" (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990).
  • Mary Maleski, ed., A Fine Tuning: Studies of the Religious Poetry of Herbert and Milton (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989).
  • Leah Sinanoglou Marcus, Childhood and Cultural Despair: A Theme and Variations in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978).
  • Louis L. Martz, The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century, revised edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962).
  • Edmund Miller and Robert Diyanni, eds., "Like Season'd Timber": New Essays on George Herbert (New York: Peter Lang, 1987).
  • A. D. Nuttall, Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St. John (London: Methuen, 1980).
  • William H. Pahlka, Saint Augustine's Meter and George Herbert's Will (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987).
  • C. A. Patrides, ed., George Herbert: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1983).
  • Robert H. Ray, ed., "The Herbert Allusion Book: Allusions to George Herbert in the Seventeenth-Century," Studies in Philology, 83 (Fall 1986): 1-182.
  • Mary Ellen Rickey, Utmost Art: Complexity in the Verse of George Herbert (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966).
  • John R. Roberts, ed., Essential Articles for the Study of George Herbert's Poetry (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1979).
  • Malcolm M. Ross, Poetry and Dogma: The Transfiguration of Eucharistic Symbols in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (New York: Octagon Books, 1969).
  • Michael C. Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
  • Robert B. Shaw, The Call of God: The Theme of Vocation in the Poetry of Donne and Herbert (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 1981).
  • Terry G. Sherwood, Herbert's Prayerful Art (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989).
  • Marion White Singleton, God's Courtier: Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's "Temple" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Camille Wells Slights, The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
  • Arnold Stein, George Herbert's Lyrics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968).
  • Stanley Stewart, George Herbert (Boston: Twayne, 1986).
  • Richard Strier, Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
  • Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., "Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne": Essays on George Herbert (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980).
  • Joseph H. Summers, George Herbert: His Religion and Art (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954).
  • Mark Taylor, The Soul in Paraphrase: George Herbert's Poetics (The Hague: Mouton, 1974).
  • Richard Todd, The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's "The Temple" (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987).
  • Rosemond Tuve, A Reading of George Herbert (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952).
  • Gene Edward Veith, Jr., Reformation Spirituality: The Religion of George Herbert (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1985).
  • Helen Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975).
  • John N. Wall, Jr., Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
  • Bart Westerweel, Patterns and Patterning: A Study of Four Poems by George Herbert (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984).
  • Helen C. White, The Metaphysical Poets: A Study in Religious Experience (New York: Macmillan, 1936).