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George Herbert: the country parson, the Temple

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George Herbert (1593-1633) lived in England during the tempestuous reigns of James I and Charles I that saw the nation racked by conflict among Catholics, Hugh Churchmen, and Puritans. A member of a politically-active family, Herbert rejected a promising career as a member of Parliament for the simple life of a country parson. While busily involved in his pastoral duties he produced works of poetry and prose that have earned him a long-established place in English literary history.
Collected here are two works originally published after Herbert's death at Bemerton in 1633: The Country Parson, a prose treatise on the duties, joys, and hardships of a pastor's life; and The Temple, a collection of poems. In them the literary genius of this humble priest whose spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety is revealed.

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Series Title

The classics of Western spiritulit

Call Number

821.008 WAL g

Publisher

New York : Paulist Press., 1981

Collation

xxii, 354p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8091-0317-6

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821.008

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POETRY, CHRISTIAN - ENGLISH

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