Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poems of George Herbert
Herbert was about the first to perceive that poems should have solid structure. He knew when to stop. He supplies his pieces with a beginning, middle, and end. N O super?uity enters into their' unified form. Herbert, in short, is a conscious artist; and before his time literary artistry was little sought or understood. The mastery of firm poetic form is one of the distinctive contributions made by him to English verse.
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