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George Herbert
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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Also known as: Джордж Херберт, جورج هربرت, 조지 허버트, ジョージ・ハーバート, 乔治·赫伯特, Херберт, Джордж

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Known works

  • George Herbert and the seventeenth-century religious poets (1978)
  • The country parson ; The temple (1981)
  • Poems (1633)
  • Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
  • Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum