![]() ![]() Knowing the snare a university so often proves to the susceptible heart of youth, his mother recommended him to the special charge of the Master of the College, Dr Nevil, then Dean of Canterbury. His classical attainments, especially in Greek, secured his election, at the early age of 15, to Trinity College, Cambridge. At the age of 12, Herbert entered Westminster School, where, under the tuition of the masters of that institution, he shone no less in wit than wisdom. Their language remains fresh and inspiring today.The father of George Herbert dying when the poet was but 4 years old, the discipline and education of the children (7 sons, the eldest being Lord Cherbury) devolved upon his mother, a woman celebrated at once for her beauty and her worth, who devoted herself with the most zealous care to the godly upbringing of her family. ![]() They combine a profound spirituality with a restless experimentation. The poems of his final years, written while as a clergyman at Bemerton near Salisbury, are like nothing else in literature. Remarkably, none of his work was published in his lifetime. ![]() Despite living for only 40 years, his stock as a poet has risen and risen. George Herbert was born on the 3d April 1593, at the ancient seat of the family, Montgomery Castle, (Trefaldwyn), Powys, Wales. ![]()
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