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IN MEMORIAM: HELEN VENDLER, 1933-2024

Helen Vendler 1933-2024 A Tribute by Gordon Teskey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University According to The […]


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award of the George Herbert Society, 2020-2024

The Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award of the George Herbert Society, 2020-2024 For an Outstanding Dissertation on George Herbert The George […]


Seventh Triennial Conference at Trinity College, University of Toronto, 19-22 June 2025: George Herbert and the Americas—Mark your calendars!

  Mark your calendars! The George Herbert Society Seventh Triennial Conference George Herbert and the Americas Trinity College, The University […]


Shaun Ross, Winner of 2014-2016 Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award, publishes with Oxford University Press: The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton (2023)

  The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton  


Simon Jackson, Winner of 2011-2013 Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award, publishes with Cambridge University Press: George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (2022)

  “George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture is that rarest of things – a triumph of learned, insightful interdisciplinarity. Jackson writes with equal sensitivity […]


NOW AVAILABLE! Edward and George Herbert and the European Republic of Letters, Edited by Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Manchester University Press)

This collection, drawing on our Herbert in Paris conference of 2017, can be purchased in advance for a limited time […]


Re-Forming George Herbert: A Folger Institute Digital Exhibit

The Editors of The Digital Temple and George Herbert: Complete Works invite you to enjoy a taste of their work, […]


George Herbert: Complete Works (OUP) Wins Fourth NEH

George Herbert: Complete Works Wins Fourth NEH Award The George Herbert Society is pleased to announce that George Herbert: Complete […]


Herbert Letter Discovered in Cambridge University Archives

We are pleased to announce that Jeffrey P. Beck, author of Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue (Duquesne, 1998) […]


Townend Wins 2017-2019 Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award

Jenna Townend wins the Chauncey Wood Dissertation Award of the George Herbert Society for 2017-2019 The panel of judges who […]