I used this
collection as daily readings between Christmas Day and Candlemas,
although I know that it is currently being pushed as a Lent book (the
choice of 40 George Herbert poems will have had that use in mind).
For each poem Mark
Oakley offers a couple of pages of reflection, much of this is to
assist unlocking the changes in language – many terms Herbert uses
have either changed meaning or simply fallen out of use in the
intervening centuries – or a few biographical notes to
contextualise the situations in which Herbert was writing. This
allows Herbert’s poems to be the focus, and is to Oakley’s
credit.
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