This collection of essays features many of the world's leading Herbert
scholars and track Herbert's travels: through four centuries, west and
east; through the inner spaces of the suffering body and soul; and
through modernity into the postmodern. They discover connections between
Herbert and dozens of varied writers, from Augustine, Shakespeare, Donne
and Dickinson to Bishop, Larkin, Hecht, and Heaney; important reading
for all students of British and American poetry, from early modern to
postmodern.