The English works of George Herbert . ications may be found. Butthese are too few and of too uncertain a natureto permit a conservative critic to venture on afull chronological arrangement. Within the greatDivisions I have preferred a topical order, whichmay still throw light on the processes of Herbertsmind, and illuminate the poems by what is knownof their writer through other sources. All the poemsof the Crisis period are naturally placed each of the other two Divisions I havedrawn up five subordinate sections or Groups, andfurnished them with suitable explanatory
The English works of George Herbert . ications may be found. Butthese are too few and of too uncertain a natureto permit a conservative critic to venture on afull chronological arrangement. Within the greatDivisions I have preferred a topical order, whichmay still throw light on the processes of Herbertsmind, and illuminate the poems by what is knownof their writer through other sources. All the poemsof the Crisis period are naturally placed each of the other two Divisions I havedrawn up five subordinate sections or Groups, andfurnished them with suitable explanatory the first Division, covering the Cambridge years,the sententious morality of The Church-Porchnaturally stands first, for Herbert apparently de-. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY MDCCCCV COPYRIGHT 1905 BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMERALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIS LARGE-PAPER EDITION IN SIX VOLUMES IS LIMITED TO 150 COPIESPRINTED FROM TYPE AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESSCAMBRIDGE, MASS., /^^ TABLE OF CONTENTSVOLUME I CHRONOLOGY page i INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS I. THE LIFE 15 n. THE MAN 47 in. THE RELIGIOUS POETRY 85 IV. THE STYLE 121 V. THE TEXT AND ORDER 169 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSVOLUME I Whites Drawing frontispiece Whites Engraving in The Temple, 1674 page 14Sturts Engraving in The Temple, 1709 46 Page of the Bodleian Manuscript 84 English Poem from the Williams Manuscript 120Latin Poems from the Williams Manuscript 168 PREFACE PREFACE THERE are few to whom this book will seemworth while. It embodies long labor, spenton a minor poet, and will probably never be readentire by any one. But that is a reason for its exist-ence. Lavishness is in its aim. The book is a boxof spikenard, poured in unappeasable love over onewho has attende
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