CONFERENCE REGISTRATION! George Herbert and the Americas Trinity College, University of Toronto, 19-22 June 2025 Click Here for Registration: Herbert in Toronto 2025
Click here to listen! BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, George Herbert featuring Helen Wilcox, Simon Jackson, and Victoria Moul, with Melvyn Bragg
Helen Vendler 1933-2024 A Tribute by Gordon Teskey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University According to The New York Times, Helen Vendler, Porter University Professor at Harvard, was a “Colossus of poetry criticism.” That’s true, but how she’d have smiled at the masculine image, bestriding the seas!… Continue reading…
The Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award of the George Herbert Society, 2020-2024 For an Outstanding Dissertation on George Herbert The George Herbert Society is pleased to invite submissions, beginning immediately, for the Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award for an Outstanding Dissertation on George Herbert. This prize will be awarded at the Seventh… Continue reading…
Mark your calendars! The George Herbert Society Seventh Triennial Conference George Herbert and the Americas Trinity College, The University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada 19-22 June 2025 In The Church Militant (1633), George Herbert envisions Religion, beleaguered, battered, and compromised in Europe and Britain, standing “on tip-toe in our land… Continue reading…
The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton
“George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture is that rarest of things – a triumph of learned, insightful interdisciplinarity. Jackson writes with equal sensitivity on music, verse, and biography, and tunes all three into a beautiful critical consort. His book is a landmark achievement in the study of Herbert and of early seventeenth-century artistic culture – a must… Continue reading…
This collection, drawing on our Herbert in Paris conference of 2017, can be purchased in advance for a limited time using the discount code OTH890 to claim 40% off the book when buying on the Manchester University website.
The Editors of The Digital Temple and George Herbert: Complete Works invite you to enjoy a taste of their work, found at the digital exhibit being mounted during the month of March by the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library and by North Carolina State University in partnership with… Continue reading…
George Herbert: Complete Works Wins Fourth NEH Award The George Herbert Society is pleased to announce that George Herbert: Complete Works (GHCW) has been awarded a $300,000 Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. The edition’s fourth from the NEH, the award will… Continue reading…
