Robert Whalen, Christopher Hodgkins

George Herbert: Complete Works

Volume I: English Prose

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Produktbeschreibung

A scholarly edition of the complete works of the Renaissance poet and priest George Herbert. Volume I offers the whole of Herbert's English prose, including his pastoral manual, The Countrey Parson; his collections of more than 1,100 aphorisms, the Outlandish Proverbs and Jacula Prudentum ; and, for the first time, the signed original of his Will.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 15mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855053
• ISBN-10: 0192855050
• Artikelnr.: 73513611

Autorenporträt

Robert Whalen is Professor of Renaissance Literature at Northern Michigan University. He is the author of a book and articles on George Herbert and John Donne, as well as articles on digital editing and textual scholarship, the latter all pertaining to his career-long engagement with the Herbert corpus. He is co-editor, with Christopher Hodgkins, of The Digital Temple as well as the forthcoming The Temple and The Country Parson for Oxford World's Classics. He has been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and, with Hodgkins, is a three-time recipient of the NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant. Christopher Hodgkins is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In addition to the publications and grants shared with Robert Whalen, he is author or editor of seven books treating topics including Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, the imperial imagination, and the Bible. He serves on the consortium board of the Folger Institute in Washington, DC, and on the consortium board of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. He directs the international George Herbert Society and has been invited to address audiences across North America and at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Bangor, Edinburgh, Catania, Aarhus, and Paris; at Salisbury and Canterbury Cathedrals; and at the Vatican.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* A Timeline of George Herbert's Life and Era
* Source Texts and Sigla
* Other Abbreviations and References
* Textual Policy
* A Priest to the Temple, or, The Countrey Parson his Character, and
Rule of Holy Life
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* The Authour to the Reader
* A Treatise of Temperance and Sobrietie
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* A Treatise of Temperance and Sobrietie
* Briefe Notes Relating to the Dubious and Offensive Places in
[Valdesso's] Considerations
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* A Copy of a letter written by Mr George Herbert to his friend the
Translator of this Book
* Outlandish Proverbs and Jacula Prudentum
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* Outlandish Proverbs and Jacula Prudentum
* Letters
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* Herbert's Will
* Textual Introduction
* Critical Introduction
* Herbert's Will