ABSTRACT
‘Antiphon’, the title of two poems by Herbert, was in 1868 borrowed by the poet and novelist George Macdonald for his collection of essays, ‘England’s Antiphon’. It was a symbolic gesture, in that Macdonald’s chapter on Herbert within the collection is a distinctly enthusiastic evaluation of the poet – an evaluation, moreover, accompanied by a sustained plea for the recognition of Herbert’s ‘exquisite art’, significantly intimated to be superior to Donne’s. See also above, p. 27.
Source: Macdonald, George Herbert, in ‘England’s Antiphon’ (1868), Ch. XII (pp. 174–93).
