George Herbert is undeniably a devotional poet, devoted to Christ and to the Church as Christ's representative on earth, yet his poetry has an energy, inventiveness and intellectual depth and edge usually missing from what we think of as devotional verse.
George Herbert is undeniably a devotional poet, devoted to Christ and to the Church as Christ's representative on earth, yet his poetry has an energy, inventiveness and intellectual depth and edge usually missing from what we think of as devotional verse.