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The works of George Herbert

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Type of record: Book

Title: The works of George Herbert

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Read C902

Creator(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633)

Additional creator(s): Hutchinson, F E (1871-1947) (Other)

Publisher: The Clarendon Press

Publication city: Oxford

Date(s): 1941

Language: English

Size and medium: lxxvii, 619 pages, 1 unnumbered page

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/171582

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012466959705181

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

Description

"The main object of this edition is to establish the text of The temple by providing a more complete and more accurate collection of the evidence than has been hitherto available."--Pref.


Contents: Introduction -- The temple -- English poems in the Williams MS. not included in The temple -- Poems from Walton's Lives -- Doubtful poems -- A priest to the temple, or, The country parson -- Cornaro's Treatise of temperature, translated into English by George Herbert -- Briefe notes on Valdesso's considerations, and a letter to the translator -- Outlandish proverbs -- Jacula prudentum -- Letters -- The will of George Herbert -- Musae responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoriam -- Passio discerpta -- Lucas -- Memoriae matris sacrum (otherwise known as Parentalia) -- Alia poemata latina -- Orationes -- Epistolae -- Commentary -- Appendix.

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