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He became friends with Nicholas Ferrar, who had founded a religious community at nearby Little Gidding, and devoted himself to his rural parish and the reconstruction of his church. He resigned as orator in 1627 and in 1630 was ordained priest and became rector at Bemerton. By 1625 Herbert’s sponsors at court were dead or out of favour, and he turned to the church, being ordained deacon.

During Herbert’s academic career, his only published verse was that written for special occasions in Greek and Latin.

George Herbert, (born April 3, 1593, Montgomery Castle, Wales-died March 1, 1633, Bemerton, Wiltshire, Eng.), English religious poet, a major metaphysical poet, notable for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words.Ī younger brother of Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, a notable secular metaphysical poet, George in 1610 sent his mother for New Year’s two sonnets on the theme that the love of God is a fitter subject for verse than the love of woman, a foreshadowing of his poetic and vocational bent.Įducated at home, at Westminster School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was in 1620 elected orator of the university, a position that he described as “the finest place in the university.” His two immediate predecessors in the office had risen to high positions in the state, and Herbert was much involved with the court.