ABSTRACT
The American scholar and critic Paul Elmer More, a leader of the New Humanist movement, was among the first to respond to Palmer’s edition of Herbert (No. 65). Militantly indisposed to Palmer’s efforts to qualify Walton’s view of the ‘holy’ Herbert, More so defended the traditional interpretation that he stands last in the honourable line that heard through the poet ‘the tinkling purity of a silver sacring bell’. See also above, p. 31.
Source: More, from George Herbert, in ‘Shelburne Essays’, 4th series (1906), pp. 66–9, 74–8, 86–98.
