John Nichol, from his Introduction to ‘The Poetical Works of George Herbert' 1863

The first professional academic to attend to Herbert was John Nichol, Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow (see also above, p. 27). In his introduction to the 1863 edition of Herbert’s poetry – its text, one would wish to mark, edited by Keats’s friend Charles Cowden Clark – Nichol began with a brief but cosmic view of developments during the Elizabethan period and continued in the manner shown below.

Source: Nichol, from The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, in ‘The Poetical Works of George Herbert’ (1863), pp. vi–vii and xix–xxvi.