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"George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies," edited by Christopher Hodgkins. This is a book with essays from eminent contemporary scholars about the legacy of George Herbert. "These essays ask how travel through space and time influences the reception and creation of literary art; in other words, how the movement of poetry affects and effects poetic movements. The interdisciplinary contributors observe Herbert’s poetry traveling geographically (from earlier British receptions, to the “American strand,” to the Far East), traveling internally (through the interior terrain of formal and bodily experience), and traveling temporally (through the shifting cultural landscapes made by Modern and Postmodern minds). Along the way, they discover connections between Herbert and a kaleidoscopic range of writers and thinkers including Augustine, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Anne Clifford, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, Christopher Harvey, Thomas Traherne, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Ridler, R. S. Thomas, Simone Weil, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Philip Larkin, Harold Bloom, Anthony Hecht, John Bradburne, Seamus Heaney, Dallas Wiebe, Carole Rumens, and Vikram Seth." This is a timely and much needed work about Herbert, filling a gap left in his critical history (about his inventiveness and influence, as well as the importance of his own reception throughout the centuries). It's needed not only in our UQ collection, but in Herbert scholarship at large!! Would be great to add it to our library, and will be very, very, very useful for my own thesis work.

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