Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Works of George Herbert, Vol. 1: Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life
It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that an elaborate edition of a subordinate poet is exons able only on grounds of personal devotion. There are public reasons too. The tendencies of an age appear more distinctly in its writers of inferior rank than in those of commanding genius. These latter tell of past and future as well as of the years in which they live. They are for all time. But on the sensitive, responsive souls, of less creative power, current ideals record themselves with clear ness. Whoever, then, values literary history will be glad to seek out the gentle and incomplete poet, be willing for a while to dwell dispassionately in his narrow surroundings, without praise or blame will examine his numbered thoughts, and never forget that even restricted times and poets work out neces sary elements of human nature and appropriately further its growth. A small writer so studied be comes large. So would I study Herbert, laying chief stress ou his psychological, social, and liter ary significance, and markn his connection with the world-movements of his age.
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