![]() ![]() It wasn’t published until 1652, at which point Herbert was already long-dead, and it was never the publishing success that Herbert’s poems had been. But his only published prose work, Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life, is much less known. Many still read and prize Herbert’s poetry. It also inspired many imitators and even more admirers over subsequent centuries (Richard Baxter, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Spurgeon, and C. That single volume of poems established George Herbert as one of the great metaphysical poets. Deeply moved, he had them printed that same year, and the book met with instant success, selling edition after edition. ![]() Nicholas Ferrar received and read his poems. Herbert died soon afterward, on March 1, 1633. ![]() ![]() Herbert had never before published his English poetry he wrote his poems for God and kept them to himself, though he seems to have envisioned the possibility of eventual publication. Or, if he thought the poems might help others, he could publish them. He asked him to deliver the manuscript to their mutual friend Nicholas Ferrar. Herbert entrusted a friend with a handwritten manuscript of religious and devotional poems. Early in the year 1633, a rural Anglican priest named George Herbert lay dying of tuberculosis in the village of Bemerton, England. ![]()
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