George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

'You look as though you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Arthuriana, Vol. 22, No. 4, Special Issue in Honor of Edward Donald Kennedy (WINTER 2012), pp. 25-45 (21 pages) In this essay, the authors demonstrate that the little-studied Middle English poem ...