ABSTRACT
Occasioned by the publication of two editions of Herbert’s Works – the reissues of the Pickering text (1850) and the Willmott edition (1859) – an anonymous review in 1862 was swiftly transformed into a sustained study and, in effect, a major effort to propagandise in Herbert’s favour (see also above, p. 26). The essay begins by commending the proliferating editions of several poets – we are else, the author states, ‘in danger … of neglecting the treasures of the past’ – and attends to Herbert in the ensuing fashion.
Source: from George Herbert and his Times, ‘Christian Remembrancer’, n.s., XLIV (July 1862), pp. 105–31 and 133–7.
