|
| Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
Buy New: $14.14
You Save: $9.86 (41%)
New (27) Used (12) from $8.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 69594
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0679443592
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.3
EAN: 9780679443599
ASIN: 0679443592
Publication Date: July 10, 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW SHRINKWAPPED. NO BLACK MARKS, SHELFWARE OR ANY OTHER DEFECTS.. SHIPS TODAY. CHECK OUR CUSTOMER FEEDBACK S-128F
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater
|
| Customer Reviews:
affordable, beautiful edition of GREAT poetry December 13, 2002
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
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.
A difficult poet for me January 18, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Herbert is a difficult poet for me. His deep Christian faith is central to his work, and this makes it somewhat hard for me, to really enter it. Yet I do feel some kind of connection with it, perhaps out of the sense that his intensity and close- relation to God remind me much of Psalms. He to many is one of the great English poets one whose modest demeanor belie a remarkably experimental and searching soul.
Here is one of his well-known poems,
REDEMPTION.
HAVING been tenant long to a rich Lord,
Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
And make a suit unto him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancell th' old.
In heaven at his manour I him sought :
They told me there, that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possession.
I straight return'd, and knowing his great birth,
Sought him accordingly in great resorts ;
In cities, theatres, gardens, parks, and courts :
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth
Of theeves and murderers : there I him espied,
Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.
a fine and well-annotated one-volume Herbert February 9, 1999
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.
The Genius Heart Of George Herbert January 13, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must addition to any thinking Christian's library. Herbert, contemporary of Shakespeare, weaves prosaic and rhyming lines with utmost artistry, expression, and Christian devotion. His works stands out among writers of every century, and not limited to Christian writers in particular.
 Handsome Everyman Hardbound July 27, 2008
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.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
