1860 The Complete Works of George Herbert and the Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A vast array of spiritual musing, poetry and satires, being the complete works of George Herbert, an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." Alongside the satires and psalms of Joseph Hall, an English bishop, satirist and moralist whose contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, as well as a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s.