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George Herbert

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George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. [1]

81 relations: All Saints' Church, Cambridge, Allen Lane, Altar poem, Anglican Communion, Aphorism, Barnabas Oley, Baron Herbert of Chirbury, Bemerton, Benjamin Britten, Calendar of saints (Lutheran), Charles Cotton, Charles West Cope, Church of England, Collect, Conceit, Concrete poetry, Custos rotulorum, Deism, Devotional song, Diocese of Lincoln, Earl of Pembroke, Edmund Rubbra, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evening Prayer (Anglican), Five Mystical Songs, Fugglestone St Peter, Gallery Oldham, Guildhall Art Gallery, Helen Gardner (critic), Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels), Henry Hoppner Meyer, Henry Purcell, Henry Vaughan, High sheriff, Hopwood Award, House of Herbert, Izaak Walton, James VI and I, John Blow, John Donne, John Drury (dean of Christ Church), John Dryden, John Sturt, Judith Weir, Justice of the peace, Leighton Bromswold, Little Gidding, Metaphysical poets, Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency), ..., Montgomery, Powys, Montgomeryshire, National Portrait Gallery, London, Ned Rorem, Nicholas Ferrar, Oil painting, Parliament of England, Philip Sheldrake, Prebendary, Psalms, Public Orator, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rhetoric, Richard Baxter, Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury, Richard Newport (died 1570), Robert White (engraver), Saints in Anglicanism, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral, Trinity College, Cambridge, Tuberculosis, Vikram Seth, Virginals, Wales, Westminster Abbey, Westminster School, William Dyce, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, William Laud, William Walton. Expand index (31 more) »

All Saints' Church, Cambridge

All Saints' is a church on Jesus Lane in central Cambridge, England, which was built by the architect G F Bodley.

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Allen Lane

Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

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Altar poem

An altar poem is a pattern poem in which the lines are arranged to look like the form of an altar.

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Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.

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Aphorism

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition") is a concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

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Barnabas Oley

Barnabas Oley (1602–1686) was an English churchman and academic.

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Baron Herbert of Chirbury

The title of Baron Herbert of Chirbury was created five times, twice in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Bemerton

Bemerton, once a separate village to the west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, is now virtually a suburb of that city.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Calendar of saints (Lutheran)

The Lutheran Calendar of Saints is a listing which specifies the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by some Lutheran Churches in the United States.

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Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton (28 April 1630 – 16 February 1687) was an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the influential The Compleat Gamester attributed to him.

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Charles West Cope

Charles West Cope (28 July 1811, in Leeds – 21 August 1890, in Bournemouth) was an English, Victorian era painter of genre and history scenes, and an etcher.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Collect

The collect is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy.

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Conceit

In modern literary criticism, in particular of genre fiction, conceit frequently means an extended rhetorical device, summed up in a short phrase, that refers to a situation which either does not exist or exists very infrequently but which is necessary to the plot.

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Concrete poetry

Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.

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Custos rotulorum

Custos rotulorum (plural: custodes rotulorum; Latin for "keeper of the rolls") is a civic post which is recognised in the United Kingdom (except Scotland) and in Jamaica.

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Deism

Deism (or; derived from Latin "deus" meaning "god") is a philosophical belief that posits that God exists and is ultimately responsible for the creation of the universe, but does not interfere directly with the created world.

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Devotional song

A devotional song is a hymn which accompanies religious observances and rituals.

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Diocese of Lincoln

The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England.

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Earl of Pembroke

The Earldom of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England.

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Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra (23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer.

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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (or Chirbury) KB (3 March 1582 – 20 August 1648) was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Evening Prayer (Anglican)

Evening Prayer is a liturgy in use in the Anglican tradition celebrated in the late afternoon or evening.

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Five Mystical Songs

The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911.

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Fugglestone St Peter

Fugglestone St Peter was a small village, manor, and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, lying between the town of Wilton and the city of Salisbury.

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Gallery Oldham

Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Guildhall Art Gallery

The Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the City of London, England.

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Helen Gardner (critic)

Dame Helen Louise Gardner, DBE, FBA (13 February 1908 – 4 June 1986) was an English literary critic and academic.

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Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels)

Sir Henry Herbert (1595–1673) was Master of the Revels to both King Charles I and King Charles II.

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Henry Hoppner Meyer

Henry Meyer (12 June 1780 - 28 May 1847) was an English portrait painter, more known as a stipple and mezzotint engraver.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English.

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High sheriff

A high sheriff is a ceremonial officer for each shrieval county of England and Wales and Northern Ireland or the chief sheriff of a number of paid sheriffs in U.S. states who outranks and commands the others in their court-related functions.

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Hopwood Award

The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.

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House of Herbert

The House of Herbert is a British Noble House founded by William Herbert, known as "Black William", the son of William ap Thomas, founder of Raglan Castle, a follower of Edward IV of England in the Wars of the Roses.

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Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton (–1683) was an English writer.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Blow

John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669.

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John Donne

John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.

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John Drury (dean of Christ Church)

John Henry Drury (born 23 May 1936) is an Anglican priest and author.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Sturt

John Sturt (6 April 1658 – August 1730) was an English engraver, apprenticed to Robert White.

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Judith Weir

Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer and Master of the Queen's Music.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Leighton Bromswold

Leighton Bromswold (also known as Leighton) is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Little Gidding

Little Gidding is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Metaphysical poets

The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.

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Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)

Montgomery was a constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England and later in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Montgomery, Powys

Montgomery (Trefaldwyn; meaning "the town of Baldwin") is a town in the Welsh Marches, administratively in the Welsh county of Powys.

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Montgomeryshire

Montgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn (Sir Drefaldwyn meaning "the Shire of Baldwin's town") is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist.

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Nicholas Ferrar

Nicholas Ferrar (22 February 1592 – 4 December 1637) was an English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion.

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Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Philip Sheldrake

Philip Sheldrake is a religious historian, theologian, scholar in the overall area of spirituality.

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Prebendary

tags--> A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.

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Public Orator

The Public Orator is a traditional official post at universities, especially in the United Kingdom.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist.

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Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury

Richard Herbert (died 1596), Lord of Cherbury (or Chirbury) in Shropshire, and of Montgomery Castle, was an English Justice of the Peace and Parliamentarian who was High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1576 and 1584 and Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire in 1594-1596.

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Richard Newport (died 1570)

Richard Newport (by 1511–12 September 1570) was an English landowner and politician of Shropshire origin, prominent regionally during the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods.

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Robert White (engraver)

Robert White (1645–1703) was an English draughtsman and engraver.

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Saints in Anglicanism

The term "saint" is a context-specific translation of the Latin "sanctus", meaning sacred, and originally referred to a sacred (extremely holy) person—however, since the 10th century, the Church has reserved the status of saint to people its official canon law (including calendar) has recognised for outstanding Christian service and conduct.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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Virginals

The virginals or virginal is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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William Dyce

Prof William Dyce (Aberdeen 19 September 1806 – 14 February 1864) was a distinguished Scottish artist, who played a significant part in the formation of public art education in the United Kingdom, as perhaps the true parent of the South Kensington Schools system.

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William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (8 April 1580 – 10 April 1630) was an English nobleman, politician, and courtier.

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William Laud

William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was an English archbishop and academic.

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert

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