I’ve long believed that George Herbert wasn’t just the greatest religious poet in English, but the greatest of all our lyric poets, regardless of what they write about. He knows how to compress a powerful story into a short space. He knows how to use a single word to mean three or four distinct things at once, all of them fit for the poem. He has a shar…
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