Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library) [Hardcover]

George Herbert (Author)

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Publication Date: July 10, 1995

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater

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Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater

Product Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (July 10, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679443592
• ISBN-13: 978-0679443599
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a fine and well-annotated one-volume Herbert, February 9, 1999

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This review is from: Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library) (Hardcover)

This is a first-rate edition: a carefully-edited text that includes Herbert's prose works, and Walton's biography. The intro and notes by Slater are terrific, meant for the general reader, infor- mative and graceful. The best inexpensive edition of this wonderful poet now in print.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars affordable, beautiful edition of GREAT poetry, December 13, 2002

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This review is from: Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library) (Hardcover)

George Herbert is hard to find, and the standard Hutchinson edition is expensive and weighty. This new Everyman edition is both affordable and compact, without sacrificing quality. It's beautifully printed, elegantly bound, accurately arranged and intelligently footnoted. I was thrilled to come across it and have bought several editions so that I could introduce friends to the insight and beauty of this profound poet. A must for anyone who loves poetry and everyone who seeks God.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handsome Everyman Hardbound, July 27, 2008

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This review is from: Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library) (Hardcover)

Beautiful book with an understated book jacket that seems perfectly suited to the intelligent, elegant, devotional poetry of George Herbert. No question about it, Herbert was a poet to be reckoned with. His verse is extremely stylized and contains complex structures and brilliant rhyming and meter. Nevertheless, they are all about his faith and about the church. Not being much into traditional religious faith, I find his poems, though indisputably brilliant, unsatisfying in that, unlike Donne's, they're all about the same thing--his undying devotion to his God. Nothing wrong with that; it's just that it gets to be like readng the same poem over and over. The same could be said, I suppose, about poems about romantic love. There are other things to think and write about besides love and religion. Nevertheless, he was a master poet and anyone who writes verse could learn a great deal from Herbert. It's a beautiful edition with a great lay-out, helpful introduction, and a slender little gold ribbon for holding one's place.