Johnson — Wrapt in Flesh

Johnson, Kimberly. “‘Wrapt in Flesh’: An Encounter with Christian Poetics.” Christianity and Literature 71, no. 4 (December 2022): 495–501.

Herbert’s poem “Coloss. 3.3.”

Hermann — Herbert’s ‘Superliminare’

Hermann, John P. “Herbert’s ‘Superliminare’ and the Tradition of Warning in Mystical Literature.” George Herbert Journal 4, no. 1 (Fall, 1980): 1–10.

Etchells — George Herbert and Parable

Etchells, Ruth. “George Herbert and Parable: Similitude, Coherence and Grace.” Anvil: An Anglican Evangelical Journal for Theology and Mission 11, no. 2 (1994): 123–31.

Dyson — English Poetry

Dyson, A. E., ed. English Poetry: Selected Bibliographical Guides. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Margaret Bottrall, “Herbert,” pp. 60–75.

Ericson — Holy Mr. Herbert

Ericson, Edward E., Jr. “The Holy Mr. Herbert.” Christianity Today 15 (10 September 1971): 7–11.

Dinshaw — Intellectual Background

Dinshaw, F. E. “The Intellectual Background to George Herbert’s The Temple.” Thesis, Oxford University, 1983.

Eliot — George Herbert

Eliot, T. S. George Herbert. Writers and Their Work. Plymouth: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1994.

Dickson — Fountain of Living Waters

Dickson, Donald R. The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.

Di Cesare — Imagery and Allusion

Di Cesare, Mario A. “Image and Allusion in Herbert’s ‘Prayer (I)’.” English Literary Renaissance 11, no. 3 (Autumn, 1981): 304–28.

Mayor — George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar

Mayor, J. E. B. “George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar.” Notes and Queries 10 (22 July 1854): 58–59.

Hyde — George Herbert and His Times

Hyde, A. G. George Herbert and His Times. London: Methuen; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906.

“The Poet and His Age”; “Birthplace, Family and Childhood”; “School and University”; “Early Life and Writings at Cambridge”; “Orator and Theologian”; “Herbert as a Courtier”; “The Lady Magdalen Herbert”; “Friends and Contemporaries”; “The Reordering of the Church”; “Transitional”; “Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding”; “Bemerton: The Parson and His Cure”; “Last Days”; “The Temple. The Church-Porch”; “The Temple. The Shorter Poems”; “The Country Parson and Other Writings”; “Conclusion.” Index.

Reviews: “George Herbert,” Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 1906, pp. 333–34; “Holy Mr. Herbert,” Saturday Review 102 (1906): 583–84; Francis Thompson, Athenaeum, 16 March 1907, pp. 313–14.

Miller — Like Season’d Timber

Miller, Edmund, and Robert DiYanni, eds. Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.

Amy M. Charles, “Herbert and the Ferrars: Spirituall Edification,” pp. 1–18; Barry Fruchter, “Andrewes and Herbert: Empty Music: Andrewes in the Elegiac Verse of Herbert and Milton,” pp. 219–30.

Review: E. Beatrice Batson, Christianity and Literature 39 (Winter, 1990): 202–04.

Weltzien — Herbert’s Divine Music

Weltzien, O. Alan. “Herbert’s Divine Music in Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs.” George Herbert Journal 15, no. 1 (Fall, 1991): 2–21.

Summers — George Herbert

Summers, Joseph H. George Herbert: His Religion and Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954.

“Time and The Temple”; “The Life”; “Religion”; “The Conception of Form”; “The Proper Language”; “The Poem as Hieroglyph”; “Verse and Speech”; “Music”; “Allegory and the Sonnet: A Traditional Mode and a Traditional Form”; “Conclusion”; “Appendix A: ‘The Temple Explained and Improved’”; “Appendix B: Bacon and Herbert”; Notes; Index.

Reviews: Roy W. Battenhouse, Journal of Religion 35 (1955): 117–18; W. E. Buszin, Concordia Theological Monthly 29 (January 1958): 66–67.

Duckles — John Jenkins’s Settings

Duckles, Vincent. “John Jenkins’s Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert.” Musical Quarterly 48 (1962): 461–75.

Franssen — ‘Silent Airs’

Franssen, Paul, and Ria van Daalen. “‘Silent Airs’: A Musical Pun in George Herbert’s ‘Deniall’.” Notes and Queries n.s. 41, no. 2 (June 1994): 155–56.

Whiting — Two Notes on George Herbert

Whiting, Paul. “Two Notes on George Herbert.” Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 130–31.

“The Sacrifice”; “Easter.”

Daniels — Herbert’s ‘The Quip,’ Line 23

Daniels, Edgar F. “Herbert’s ‘The Quip,’ Line 23: ‘Say, I Am Thine’.” English Language Notes 2, nos. 10–12 (1964).

Daniels — Herbert’s ‘The Quip,’ Line 15

Daniels, Edgar F. “Herbert’s ‘The Quip,’ Line 15: a ‘De-Explication’.” American Notes and Queries 3 (1965): 115–16.

Di Cesare — God’s Silence

Di Cesare, Mario A. “God’s Silence: On Herbert’s ‘Deniall’.” George Herbert Journal 10, nos. 1–2 (Fall, 1986–Spring, 1987): 85–102.

Derry — George Herbert’s ‘Rope of Sands’

Derry, Warren. “George Herbert’s ‘Rope of Sands’.” Times Literary Supplement, 29 April 1965, p. 331.

Daniels — Herbert’s ‘The Quip’

Daniels, Edgar F. “Herbert’s ‘The Quip’.” Explicator 23 (1963): item 7.

Daniels — Herbert’s ‘The Agonie’

Daniels, Edgar F., and René Rapin. “Herbert’s ‘The Agonie’.” Explicator 30 (1971): item 16.

Cramer — Herbert’s ‘Ungratefulness’

Cramer, Carmen. “Herbert’s ‘Ungratefulness’.” Explicator 41, no. 4 (Summer, 1983): 17–19.

Thekla — George Herbert, Idea and Imagery

Thekla, Sister. George Herbert, Idea and Imagery: A Study of ‘The Temple’. Buckinghamshire: Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption, Filgrave, Newport Pagnell, 1974.

“Priest of the Church of England”; “World of Grace and World of Nature”; “Theology in Practice”; “The Angry God”; “The Person of Christ”; “Participation in Christ”; “The Offering of Praise”; “Key Poems of the Mystery”; “Synopsis of the Imagery”; “A Note on the Place of Literature in Understanding between the Churches.” Appendix: Lydia Gysi, “George Herbert: Aspects of His Theology.” Index of poems.

Reviews: A. J. Smith, Anglo-Welsh Review 24, no. 54 (1975): 206–08; C. C. Brown, Review of English Studies 27 (1976): 68–70.

Southern — Beauty of Holiness

Southern, Richard, ed. The Beauty of Holiness: An Introduction to Six Seventeenth-Century Anglican Writers: Archbishop William Laud, Lancelot Andrewes, Jeremy Taylor, Mark Frank, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan. Fairacre Publications, 57. Fairacres, Oxford: SLG Press, 1976.

Sister Benedicta Ward, “Three Preachers: Andrews, Taylor, Frank,” pp. 9–21; Kathleen Lea, “George Herbert: The Country Parson,” pp. 22–35; Mary Chitty, “Henry Vaughan, Silurist,” pp. 36–52.

Hunter — George Herbert and Puritan Piety

Hunter, Jeanne Clayton. “George Herbert and Puritan Piety.” Journal of Religion 68 (April 1988): 226–41.

Strier — ‘To all Angels and Saints’

Strier, Richard. “‘To all Angels and Saints’: Herbert’s Puritan Poem.” Modern Philology 77, no. 2 (November 1979): 132–45.

Levang — Herbert’s ‘Church Militant’

Levang, Dwight. “George Herbert’s ‘The Church Militant’ and the Chances of History.” Philological Quarterly 36 (1957): 265–68.

Foster — George Herbert

Foster, Donald Wolfe. “George Herbert.” Theology 70 (February 1967): 68–76.

Doelman — Contexts

Doelman, James. “The Contexts of George Herbert’s Musae Responsoriae.” George Herbert Journal 15, no. 2 (Spring, 1992): 42–54.

T. S. Eliot on ‘George Herbert’

“T. S. Eliot on ‘George Herbert’.” Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 27 May 1938.

Report of a lecture by Eliot.

Gottlieb — Eliot’s ‘Death of Saint Narcissus’

Gottlieb, Sydney. “Eliot’s ‘The Death of Saint Narcissus’ and Herbert’s ‘Affliction’ (I).” George Herbert Journal 9, no. 2 (Spring, 1986): 54–56.

Lobb — Words in Time

Lobb, Edward, ed. Words in Time: New Essays on Eliot’s Four Quartets. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Ronald Schuchard, “‘If I Think, Again, of This Place’: Eliot, Herbert, and the Way to ‘Little Gidding,’” pp. 52⁠⁠⁠–83.

Eliot — George Herbert

Eliot, T. S. George Herbert. London: Longman, 1962.

Swardson — Poetry and the Fountain of Light

Swardson, H. R. Poetry and the Fountain of Light: Observations on the Conflict between Christian and Classical Traditions in Seventeenth-Century Poetry. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1962.

See Chap. 3, “George Herbert’s Language of Devotion.”

Kyne — Country Parsons, Country Poets

Kyne, Mary Theresa. Country Parsons, Country Poets: George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins as Spiritual Autobiographers. Greensburg, Pennsylvania: Eadmer Press, 1992.

Ross — Poetry and Dogma

Ross, Malcolm Mackenzie. Poetry and Dogma: The Transfiguration of Eucharistic Symbols in Seventeenth Century English Poetry. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1954.

Chap. 6: “George Herbert and the Humanist Tradition.”

Review: Clarence L. Branton, Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 25 (1956): 95–96.

Veith — Religious Wars

Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. “The Religious Wars in George Herbert Criticism: Reinterpreting Seventeenth-Century Anglicanism.” George Herbert Journal 11, no. 2 (1988): 19–35.

Doerksen — Picturing Religious Experience

Doerksen, Daniel W. Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures. Newark: University of Delaware Press; Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

Contents: 1. Herbert and Calvin — 2. Interpreting Herbert’s “Spiritual Conflicts” — 3. The Temple and a Biblical Schema for the Depiction of Experience — 4. The “Descent into Self’ and its Goal: “The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves” — 5. “Spiritual Conflicts” in The Temple  — 6. Conflict Resolution and “Temper” in The Temple.

Review: Ann  Lewton-Brain, Seventeenth-Century News 71, nos. 3–4 (Fall–Winter, 2013): 108– .

Grant — Transformation of Sin

Grant, Patrick. The Transformation of Sin: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press; University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.

Frontain — Donne’s Biblical Figures

Frontain, Raymond Jean. “Donne’s Biblical Figures: The Integrity of ‘To Mr. George Herbert . . .’.” Modern Philology 81, no. 3 (1984): 285–89.

Esch — Englische religiöse Lyrik

Esch, Arno. Englische religiöse Lyrik des 17, Jahrhunderts Studien zu Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan. Buchreihe Der Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 5. Bd. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1955.

D’Amico — Reading and Rereading

D’Amico, Diane. “Reading and Rereading George Herbert and Christina Rossetti.” John Donne Journal 4, no. 2 (1985): 269–89.

Dickson — Between Transubstantiation and Memorialism

Dickson, Donald R. “Between Transubstantiation and Memorialism: Herbert’s Eucharistic Celebration.” George Herbert Journal 11, no. 1 (Fall, 1987): 1–14.

Doerksen — Laudian Interpretation

Doerksen, Daniel W. “The Laudian Interpretation of George Herbert.” Literature and History 3, no. 2 (Autumn, 1995): 36–54.

Doerksen — Nicholas Ferrar

Doerksen, Daniel W. “Nicholas Ferrar, Arthur Woodnoth, and the Publication of George Herbert’s The Temple.” George Herbert Journal 3, nos. 1–2 (1979–80): 22–44.

Doerksen — Things Fundamental or Indifferent

Doerksen, Daniel W. “Things Fundamental or Indifferent: Adiaphorism and Herbert’s Church Attitudes.” George Herbert Journal 11 (Fall, 1987): 15–22.

Dolan — Herbert’s Dialogue with God

Dolan, Paul J. “Herbert’s Dialogue with God.” Anglican Theological Review 51 (April 1969): 125–32.

Edgecombe — Probable Source

Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “A Probable Source for Herbert’s ‘Whitsunday’.” Notes and Queries 39 (237), no. 1 (March 1992): 29–30.