GEORGE HERBERT AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS POETS

This volume presents the major works of five poets - George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected form 'The Temple', and two early poems from Issak Walton's Lives are also included.