William Alexander, from his Introduction to ‘Poems of George Herbert' 1903

William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh, in a foreword to Herbert’s poems in 1903 argued in a manner reminiscent rather of the obsolete past than of the increasingly promising future. His boundless admiration for Keble may have been a factor that conditioned his judgement on Herbert. See also above, p. 30.

Source: Alexander, from the foreword to ‘Poems of George Herbert’ (1903), pp. vii–ix, x–xi, xiii.