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George Herbert

A Literary Life

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Cristina Malcolmson

    1. Bates College, USA

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. The Sidney-Herbert Coterie

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Cambridge and University Works

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 21-51

  4. 1624 and The Temple

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 53-76

  5. 1627 and Herbert’s Mother

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 77-96

  6. The Temple: Poems on Grace, Employment, and the Church

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 97-143

  7. Afterword: The Country Parson

    • Cristina Malcolmson
    Pages 145-150

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 151-175
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This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the religion, politics and society of his time. Instead of an isolated genius living in retreat from the world, Herbert appears as a man writing public verse, active within an important social circle, and committed to nationalistic Protestantism. The book attends to the poetic brilliance of his verse as well as the institutions and contexts that influenced him: the upper class coterie, Cambridge University, and the Church of England.

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...[a] lucid and learned biography... [a] challenging, iconoclastic representation of the poet as an active, interested and morally flawed participant in ecclesiastical machinations and political intrigue. - David Hawkes, The Times Literary Supplement

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bates College, USA

    Cristina Malcolmson

About the author

CRISTINA MALCOLMSON is Professor of English at Bates College in the USA and has taught at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. She has published Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic, edited Renaissance Poetry, and co-edited with Professor Mihoko Suzuki Palgrave Macmillan's Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700.

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