![]() ![]() This position entailed crafting speeches and writings for high ranking government officials, and in the March of 1623 Herbert delivered a speech to King James VI and I. Herbert moved through the ranks at Cambridge, which ultimately culminated in his becoming an orator at the university in 1620. In 1604, George began classes at Westminster School, studying Greek, Latin, and liturgical music, and he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1609. Several years after his birth, and following the death of Herbert's father, his mother moved her ten children, first to stay with her mother at Eyton-on-Severn in Shropshire in 1597, and then to Oxford in 1599. (One member of the family was the Countess of Pembroke to whom Sir Philip Sidney dedicated Arcadia.) Among his brothers were the poet and writer Edward Herbert, generally known as Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Sir Henry Herbert who became Master of the Revels. He came from an aristocratic family with a love of literature. ![]() Herbert was born on Apat Montgomery in Wales, the seventh of ten children. Though his poetry is less conceptually dense than Donne's, drawing more from the Bible than contemporary philosophy, Herbert's poetry is complex and formally innovative. His most famous work is a collection of poems entitled The Temple, a group of poems arranged to replicate moving through a temple. George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest and religious poet, and is an important figure for English Renaissance literature and the group of writers referred to as the metaphysical poets. ![]()
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