ABSTRACT
Typical of the numerous poetic tributes to Herbert during the seventeenth century, the ensuing one by the Reverend John Polwhele of Tremorgan was presumably written not long after the poet’s death in 1633. First published in 1972 and again in 1979, the poem is headed ‘Post mortem author mestris posuit’ (‘After the death [of Herbert] the sad author sets down [the following poem]’). See also above, p. 3.
Source: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. f. 16, fol. 11. First published by Amy M. Charles in ‘Renaissance Papers 1971’ (Durham, NC, 1972), p. 73, and reprinted in ‘Essential Articles for the Study of George Herbert’s Poetry’, ed. John R. Roberts (Hamden, Conn., 1979), pp. 428–9; here reproduced from the version transcribed by Helen Wilcox in ‘Notes and Queries’, CCXXIV (1979), 153.
