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Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert
Added at 07:36 on 03 April 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1652 first edition of "Herbert's Remains, Or, Sundry Pieces Of that sweet Singer of the Temple consisting of his collected writings from A Priest to the Temple, Jacula Prudentum, Sentences, & c., as well as a letter, several prayers, and three Latin poems" by English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert who was born #OnThisDay, 3 April 1593. He is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He wrote poetry in English, Latin and Greek, using puns and wordplay to "convey the relationships between the world of daily reality and the world of transcendent reality that gives it meaning." The book in the Leighton Library includes his only prose work, offering practical advice to rural clergy. In it, he advises that "things of ordinary use" such as ploughs, leaven, or dances, could be made to "serve for lights even of Heavenly Truths". His poem, "Let all the world in every corner sing", was published in 103 hymnals
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