ABSTRACT
Professor of Poetry at Oxford, W.J. Courthope provided in his widely consulted ‘History of English Poetry’ an account 284of Herbert that interprets his life in terms of his poetry. Herbert’s ‘quaintness’ lingers, and so does his ‘clumsy’ imagery. But the poet’s strengths are also noted, firmly. See also above, p. 30.
Source: Courthope, ‘A History of English Poetry’ (1903), III, 208–19.
