Heart in Pilgrimage: A Study of George Herbert

The poet George Herbert was born in1593 and died just before his fortieth birthday in1633.While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote to tell his mother that he had resolved that the poetry he wrote would always be consecrated to God's glory . He wrote poetry throughout his life, but we only know of it now because, from his death bed, he sent the manuscript of the collection of his poems known as The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. He asked him to bring that piece ...