George Herbert (1593-1633) lived in England during the tempestuous reigns of James I and Charles I that saw the nation racked by conflict among Catholics, Hugh Churchmen, and Puritans. A member of …
This important volume is a modern English translation of Richard Rolle's English writings. Much of the translation is based on Hope Emily Allen's Middle English edition of 1931. It is supplemented …
The poem itself is extraordinarily simple, or seems so. Only nine of its words are more than one syllable in length, and even they are such straight-forward words as "spoken," "unbroken," and "merc…