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NOTES TO PP. 135–45
5 SUBSTANCE AND STYLE IN GEORGE HERBERT’S THE TEMPLE
1 All references to Herbert’s writings are to The Works of George Herbert, ed. F.E.
Hutchinson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945. The quotation is from “The Pearle.”
2 Quoted from The Herbert Allusion Book: Allusions to George Herbert in the Seventeenth
Century, compiled and edited by Robert H.Ray in Studies in Philology 83 (1986): 131–
2. (From Baxter’s Poetical Fragments, 1681.)
3 See, respectively, Amy Charles, A Life of George Herbert, Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1977, and Diana Benet, “Herbert’s Experience of Politics and
Patronage in 1624,” George Herbert Journal 10 (1986/7):33–46; and also Joseph H.
Summers, George Herbert: His Religion and Art, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1954, ch. 2.
4 Keith Wrightson, English Society, 1580–1680, London: Hutchinson, 1982, ch. 7,
especially pp. 209–12.
5 Walton’s Lives, ed. A.H.Bullen, London: George Bell & Sons, 1884, p. 318. Ray, The
Herbert Allusion Book, p. v, notes the surprising fact to modern readers that “The
Church-porch” was Herbert’s most popular poem in the seventeenth century.
6 Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.F.Brinkley, Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1955.
7 For an illuminating account of the catholicity of Herbert’s readership, see Joseph H.
Summers, “George Herbert and Anglican Traditions,” George Herbert Journal 16
(1992–3):21–39.
8 Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1975, p. 118.
9 ibid., p. 120.
10 Richard Strier, “‘John Donne Awry and Squint’: The ‘Holy Sonnets,’ 1608–1610,”
Modern Philology 86 (1989):357–84.
11 Hooker, “A Learned Discourse of Justification,” in Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,
2 vols, London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1907, vol. I, p. 58.
12 Joseph H.Summers, “From ‘Josephs coat’ to ‘A true Hymne,’” The George Herbert
Journal 2 (1978):11.
13 “The Parson Preaching” in A Priest to the Temple, or, The Country Parson, in Works,
p. 233.
14 Recent work of interest that assesses from a variety of angles the circumstantial
nature of Herbert’s poetry includes Stanley Stewart, George Herbert, Boston, MA:
G.K.Hall, 1986, especially ch. 3; Marion Singleton, God’s Courtier: Configuring a
Different Grace in George Herbert’s “Temple,” Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987; Sidney Gottlieb, “The Social and Political Backgrounds of George
Herbert’s Poetry” in “The Muses Common-Weale”: Poetry and Politics in the
Seventeenth Century, ed. Claude J.Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, Columbia, MO:
University of Missouri Press, 1988, pp. 107–18; and, most thoroughly, Michael
C.Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1991, especially p. 227 for remarks on “Love [III]”
muffling disputes.
15 Stevens, Opus Posthumous, ed. Milton J.Bates, New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1989, p.
184.
16 I owe this point and much of my sense of contrasting discourse in Herbert to Ghana
Bloch, Spelling The Word: George Herbert and the Bible, Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1985, especially pp. 12–45. (See p. 15 for her identification of the
refrain with Psalm 38.)
17 Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 61–3, makes this argument with considerable
subtlety. We do not differ at all about whether “Jordan [I]” should be read as “plain”
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