George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Simon Jackson is Director of Music at Peterhouse and Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge, and a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. His work focuses primarily on seventeenth-century musico-poetics, and has won the George Herbert Society Chauncey Wood Award (2013) and an English Literary Renaissance Award (2015).

• 1. Measuring Well: Ethics and Incarnational Music; 2. Communities of voices: Song culture at Wilton House; 3. The visual music of the masque; 4. Concord and consent: The music of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; 5. Double motion: Attending to church music; 6. Singing the Psalms.

'This insightful and inviting book allows us to hear Herbert's musical world with fresh ears, attuned not only to individual imagination and pen but to the broader soundscape in which Herbert worked and thought. Simon Jackson's skillful approach offers new appreciation the profound impact of music on Herbert's poetry and, what is more, new and original understanding of Herbert's connections to the cultural orbits of his brother Edward (Lord of Cherbury), William Herbert and the Sidney family, Stuart masque culture, and more.' Scott Trudell, University of Maryland