Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Herbert’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes rare translations of Herbert’s Latin and Greek verses (translated by Alexander B. Grosart and Richard Wilton) – first time in digital print
* Features the first biography on the poet by Izaak Walton – discover Herbert’s fascinating life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with the Complete Prose works, including the seminal ‘A Priest to the Temple’
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
Brief Introduction: George Herbert
The Poetry of George Herbert
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Prose
A Priest to the Temple; or, The Country Parson (1652)
Preface and Notes to ‘The ‘Divine Considerations’ by John Valdesso (1652)
A Treatise of Temperance and Sobriety (1652)
Jacula Prudentum (1652)
Letters of George Herbert (1652)
The Biography
The Life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton
