Like Season'd Timber

«This volume redresses a fundamental imbalance in Herbert studies, which have explicated the well-known lyrics or argued whether medieval influences or Protestant poetics are more dominant. By reinvestigating the contexts of Herbert's life and works - biographical studies of his relationships with contemporaries, the poet's use of music and the visual arts, the significance of the lesser known poems, the poet's far-reaching impact on later British and American authors - this volume offers a strikingly new and richly comprehensive, if not kaleidoscopic, portrait hitherto unknown.» (Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University) «To discover essays by such major scholars of seventeenth- century literature as the late Amy M. Charles, Joseph Summers, and Jerome Mazzaro is to know immediately that this is a book not to ignore. ... Each of the essays in Like Season'd Timber deserves careful reading by teachers and students of George Herbert.» (E. Beatrice Batson, Christianity and Literature)

• Contents: Collection of new essays on George Herbert directed to scholars. Several essays on each of the following: biographical studies, relation to the arts, the less familiar works, relation to contemporaries, and influence on later writers.