George Herbert, The Temple

Cycle 03 — Poetry.

Framing

George Herbert’s Temple closes the cycle with the same question turned into prayer: devotion as a daily discipline shaped on the page.

Editions

  • Penguin Classics: The Complete English Poems — edited by John Tobin, with Izaak Walton’s seventeenth-century Life of Herbert as an appendix. Modernized spelling, scholarly notes, and a real introduction. The Temple in full alongside Herbert’s other English verse.