From The Temple
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George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever written. The soloist reads us a selection from this work.
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George Herbert
England
George Herbert was a poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devot...
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