- Hardcover: 509 pages
- Publisher: Random House USA Paperbacks; Reissue edition (July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679443592
- ISBN-13: 978-0679443599
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 3.2 x 21.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 825,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After 12 years, this is still far and away the best edition of George Herbert for the general reader. It's a finely made book, well-bound, neatly edited and so handsomely put together; the notes etc are scholarly but not intrusive. Well done to all at Everyman for continuing to produce their seriously classy editions at such low prices!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a first-rate edition: a carefully-edited text that includes Herbert's prose works, and Walton's biography. The intro and notes by Slater are terrific, meant for the general reader, infor- mative and graceful. The best inexpensive edition of this wonderful poet now in print.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
a fine and well-annotated one-volume Herbert
9 Feb 1999
Format:Hardcover
This is a first-rate edition: a carefully-edited text that includes Herbert's prose works, and Walton's biography. The intro and notes by Slater are terrific, meant for the general reader, infor- mative and graceful. The best inexpensive edition of this wonderful poet now in print.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
affordable, beautiful edition of GREAT poetry
13 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
George Herbert is hard to find, and the standard Hutchinson edition is expensive and weighty. This new Everyman edition is both affordable and compact, without sacrificing quality. It's beautifully printed, elegantly bound, accurately arranged and intelligently footnoted. I was thrilled to come across it and have bought several editions so that I could introduce friends to the insight and beauty of this profound poet. A must for anyone who loves poetry and everyone who seeks God.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Handsome Everyman Hardbound
27 July 2008
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Beautiful book with an understated book jacket that seems perfectly suited to the intelligent, elegant, devotional poetry of George Herbert. No question about it, Herbert was a poet to be reckoned with. His verse is extremely stylized and contains complex structures and brilliant rhyming and meter. Nevertheless, they are all about his faith and about the church. Not being much into traditional religious faith, I find his poems, though indisputably brilliant, unsatisfying in that, unlike Donne's, they're all about the same thing--his undying devotion to his God. Nothing wrong with that; it's just that it gets to be like readng the same poem over and over. The same could be said, I suppose, about poems about romantic love. There are other things to think and write about besides love and religion. Nevertheless, he was a master poet and anyone who writes verse could learn a great deal from Herbert. It's a beautiful edition with a great lay-out, helpful introduction, and a slender little gold ribbon for holding one's place.
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