John Reynolds, ‘To the Memory of the Divine Mr. George Herbert' 1725

Reynolds, a moderate dissenting minister, revised his ‘Death’s Vision’ (1709) under the title ‘A View of Death’ (1725), adding in particular the following lengthy tribute to Herbert. A creditable if rather breathless poem, it is an interpretation of Herbert in the light of distinctly eighteenth-century premises (Summers, pp. 17–18). See also above, p. 19.

Source: Reynolds, from ‘A View of Death’ (1725), pp. 110–18. The volume also provides a Latin version of ‘Mans medley’, 11. 19–24.