George Herbert & the 17th Century Religious Poets (NCE): 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Herbert, George; Di Cesare, Mario A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393092542 ISBN 13: 9780393092547

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978

Synopsis

416pages. 21x13x2cm. Broché.

About this title

About the Author:

Mario A. Di Cesare is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the S.U.N.Y. Foundation, and the Robert Frost Library. Among his publications are Vida's Christiad and Vergilian Epic; The Altar and the City: A Reading of Vergil's Aeneid; A Concordance to the Complete Writings of George Herbert (with Rigo Mignani); The Tanner Manuscript of George Herbert's "The Temple" (prepared in collaboration with Amy Charles); and numerous scholarly articles.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0393092542
• ISBN 13: 9780393092547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416