George Herbert: Complete Works by Robert Whalen, Christopher ... - 9780192855053

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George Herbert: Complete WorksVolume I: English Prose\nAuthor(s): Robert Whalen, Christopher Hodgkins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192855053, 978-0192855053\nSynopsis\nFamed for his heart-searching devotional lyric poetry, George Herbert [tel] also authored some of the finest and most influential English prose of his era: The Countrey Parson, his oft-cited pastoral manual, still valued for its spiritual insight, shrewd advice, and a style at once lively and refined, engaging and serious; A Treatise of Temperance and Sobrietie, his translation of Luigi Cornaro's jovial Italian tract on dietary health; Notes on Valdesso, his judicious and appreciative commentary (and sole theological work) on the Considerations of controversial Spanish humanist Juan de Valds; his collections of Outlandish Proverbs and Jacula Prudentum, pervasively popular for centuries and shot through with familiar wisdom and wit;.