In the introduction to A Reading of George Herbert, Rosemond Tuve summarizes her approach to the study of Herbert's poetry: "Conceding the fact that there are cases in which a poet could not bridge a gap [of history or information] he did not envisage, I have tried the experiment of making myself responsible as a reader for learning what the poet seems to have expected I would know as part of a common language." (1) The particular gap that Tuve speaks of here concerns religious symbolism and imagery, but to read seventeenth-century literature from the vantage point of the twenty-first century is to experience scores of such gaps, and one of the most helpful tasks a critic can ...

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