George Herbert

In Our Time: Culture by BBC

Dec 5, 202452:27Society & Culture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet George Herbert (1593-1633) who, according to the French philosopher Simone Weil, wrote ‘the most beautiful poem in the world’. Herbert gave his poems on his relationship with God...

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