Download or read book Utmost Art written by Mary Ellen Rickey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert has always been regarded as a man of singular piety and a poet of uncommon technical ability. Until recent times, however, he was usually thought to have written prosodically ingenious but conceptually thin verse. Mary Ellen Rickey, through a close examination of Herbert's poetry, reveals the high concentration of ideas in his verse and the richness of his imagery.