Poet/priest George Herbert d. March 1 1633. His moving poem “Prayer” consists entirely of concise images piled one upon another—each almost a sermon in itself: “the soul in paraphrase,” “heart in pilgrimage,” “reversed thunder,” “heaven in ordinarie,” “something understood.”
George Herbert d. March 1 1633 at the age of 40. After renouncing the path of worldly success to become an Anglican vicar of a tiny English parish he died 3 years later of consumption. A life of obscurity--except for the extraordinary ms. of poems he left behind.
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