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George Herbert : The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

George Herbert : The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

George Herbert : [poems]

'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

George Herbert : Temple, The

'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

George Herbert : The Temple: The Church Porch xxii

'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

George Herbert : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to me a week ago [...] His poetry has a more spiritually devotional character than any which I ever read.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

George Herbert : [poems]

'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

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