The Altar Resources

Here's a fantastic biography of Herbert that also examines the history of Herbert biographies.

This website is about George Herbert and Bemerton, the small village where he worked as a priest for the final three years of his life.

A website hosted by Cambridge that examines many aspects of Herbert's career.

Here's Norton's in-depth look at early seventeenth-century poetry.

This is a brief overview of the metaphysical poets, with whom Herbert is sometimes grouped.

Dig this choral rendition of "The Altar," accompanied by wonderful images.

This is really creepy, but also kind of cool.

You can listen to a lot of poems from The Temple right here.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only George Herbert.

Here it is folks, the place where Herbert worked for the last three years of his life.

If you walked into a bookstore in 1633, you just might have seen this bad boy.

It sounds like T.S. Eliot really dug Herbert's poetry.

This essay looks at The Temple and Herbert's various biblical rewritings.

Check out this popular, modern study of George Herbert.

Get the full Monty, right here.

Here's a great anthology offered by Norton of seventeenth-century religious poetry.