. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ined to devote himselfto a religious life, as his mother had always wished him to took orders, married and settled down to a life of pietyand poetic meditation at Bemerton, near Salisbury, in 1630; butwithin three years he died of consumption. None of his Englishpoems were published before his death, their first appearance beinga few weeks after that event, when they were published under thetitle of The Temple. They are usually lacking in elegance andbeauty of expression, but are distinguished by a gentle mysticismand a genuine
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ined to devote himselfto a religious life, as his mother had always wished him to took orders, married and settled down to a life of pietyand poetic meditation at Bemerton, near Salisbury, in 1630; butwithin three years he died of consumption. None of his Englishpoems were published before his death, their first appearance beinga few weeks after that event, when they were published under thetitle of The Temple. They are usually lacking in elegance andbeauty of expression, but are distinguished by a gentle mysticismand a genuine zeal, the more remarkable since Herbert was far frombeing a Puritan. Coming to serious-minded men as a welcomediversion from the fashionable love-poetry of the day, they werewidely read during the seventeenth century, and in recent years havefound renewed and perhaps exaggerated appreciation. But the trueglory of Herbert is that he for the first time showed that a countryparsons calling is one of the highest and best that a gentleman cantake upon O r-
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