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. Most selections are religious poetry, but the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is included. It features eighty poems by Herbert, sixteen by Crashaw, eighteen by Marvell, forty-five by Vaughan, and twelve by Traherne, all edited and modernized. The text includes annotations, textual notes, and essays from notable critics, along with an annotated bibliography on related topics.