George Herbert combined the intellectual & the spiritual the humble & the divine to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century metaphysical' poets & unusual imagery drawn from musical structures the natural world & domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit & wordplay of The Pulley' & the formal experimentation of Easter Wings' & Paradise' to the intense highly personal relationship between man & God portrayed in The Collar' & Redemption' the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.