Download or read book George Herbert and the Seventeenth-century Religious Poets written by George Herbert and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the major works of five poets--George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected form The Temple, and two early poems from Issak Walton's Lives are also included.