Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface and Suggestions for Further Reading Chronology of Herbert's Life Contextual Dates The Sidney-Herbert Coterie Cambridge and University Works 1624 and The Temple 1627 and Herbert's Mother The Temple : Lyrics on Grace, Employment and the Priesthood Afterword: The Country Parson Notes Index

Promotional Information

Cristina Malcolmson has published "Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic", edited "Renaissance Poetry", and co-edited with Professor Mihoko Suzuki "Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700".

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.

Reviews

...[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