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Article: George Herbert in the Nineties: Reflections and Reassessments.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1998
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Jonathan F. S. Post and Sidney Gottlieb, eds. George Herbert in the Nineties: Reflections and Reassessments. (George Herbert Journal Special Studies and Monographs.) Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University, 1995. viii + 223 pp. $12. ISBN: 1-888112-51-4.
Most of the essays in this volume were presented in 1993 at the conference held at the Clark Library to commemorate the 400th anniversary of George Herbert's birth. With two exceptions, the essays focus either on Herbert's poetry and "our contemporaries" or on Herbert in relation to other seventeenth-century authors or readers. The exceptions are the opening essay, "a general reading of Herbert" (vii) by Jonathan F.S. ...