This volume presents the major works of five poets George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henri, Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetD', the important secular verse of Man,ell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from The Temple, and two early poems from lsaak Walton's Lives are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poems from Steps to The Temple, Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro: Man,ell by eighteen selections from Miscellaneous Poems; Vaughan by forty-five poems from Silex Scintillans, Parts 1 and II; and Traherne by Twelve poems from the Dobell Folio, The Third Century, and the Burney Manuscript.

This volume presents the major works of five poets George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henri, Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetD', the important secular verse of Man,ell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from The Temple, and two early poems from lsaak Walton's Lives are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poems from Steps to The Temple, Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro: Man,ell by eighteen selections from Miscellaneous Poems; Vaughan by forty-five poems from Silex Scintillans, Parts 1 and II; and Traherne by Twelve poems from the Dobell Folio, The Third Century, and the Burney Manuscript.

All of the texts have been freshly edited, and spelling has been modernized. "Textual Notes" specifies the procedures followed and gives the reasons for certain new readings. The poems are copiously annotated in order to clarify unfamiliar allusions and images. The Annotated Bibliography covers historical and cultural background, the lives and works of the individual poets, and several important areas of religion especially relevant to the poems.

A broad range of critical viewpoints is represented in essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Anthony Low, L. C. Knights, E. B. Greenwood, Joseph H. Summers, Douglas Bush, Helen C. White, Austin Warren, Richard Strier, Frank Kermode, William Empson, M. C. Bradbrook, M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Edward S. LeComte, Karina Williamson, Dennis Davison, Robert Ellrodt, E. C. Pettet, S. Sandbank, Arthur Clements, H. M. Margooliouth, and Stanley Stewart.

Preface

The Texts of the Poems

　George Herbert

From The Temple (1633)

　　The Altar

　　The Sacrifice

　　The Thanksgiving

　　The Reprisal

　　The Agony

　　Good Friday

　　Redemption

　　Sepulchre

　　Easter Wings

　　Easter

　　H. Baptism (Ⅰ)

　　H. Baptism (Ⅱ)

　　Sin (Ⅰ)

　　Affliction (Ⅰ)

　　Prayer (Ⅰ)

　　[Prayer (Ⅱ)]

　　The H. Communion

　　[Church Lock-and-Key]

　　Love I

　　Love II

　　The Temper (Ⅰ)

　　The Temper (Ⅱ)

　　Jordan (Ⅰ)

　　Employment (Ⅰ)

　　The H. Scriptures Ⅰ

　　The H. Scriptures Ⅱ

　　Whitsunday

　　Grace

　　Church Monuments

　　Church Music

　　The Windows

　　The Quiddity

　　The Star

　　　Sunday

　　　Anagram

　　　Employment (Ⅱ)

　　　Denial

　　　Christmas

　　　The World

　　　Vanity (Ⅰ)

　　　Virtue

　　　The Pearl. Matth. 13.45

　　　Affiiction (Ⅳ)

　　　Man

　　　Life

　　　Mortification

　　　Jordan (Ⅰ)

　　　Obedience

　　　The British Church

　　　The Quip

　　　Iesu

　　　Dialogue

　　　Dullness

　　　Sin's Round

　　　Peace

　　　The Bunch of Grapes

　　　The Storm

　　　Paradise

　　　The Size

　　　Artillery

　　　The Pilgrimage

　　　The Bag

　　　The Collar

　　　Ioseph's Coat

　　　The Pulley

　　　The Search

　　　The Flower

　　　The Son

　　　A True Hymn

　　　Bitter-sweet

　　　Aaron

　　　The Forerunners

　　　Discipline

　　　The Banquet

　　　The Elixir

　　　A Wreath

　　　Death

　　　Doomsday

……

Richard Crashaw

Andrew Marvell

Henry Vaghan

Thomas Traherne

Textual Notes

Annotated Bibliography