Christopher Hodgkins is professor of English and director of the Atlantic World Research Network at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His previous books include Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert: Return to the Middle Way, Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature, and George Herbert’s Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton. Currently he is co-editor, with Robert Whalen, of The Digital Temple, the first original-sources born-digital edition of Herbert’s English poetry, and is at work on Anxious Beauty: George Herbert and the Protestant Aesthetic.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: "Heart in pilgrimage": Traveling with George Herbert Part 2 Setting Our Bearings Chapter 3 What Makes Him So Great? Chapter 4 "Neither too mean, nor yet too gay"? The Historians, "Anglicanism," and George Herbert's Church Part 5 Travels at Home and Abroad Chapter 6 "Order plays the soul": Anne Clifford, The Temple, and the Spiritual Logic of Housework Chapter 7 "What is a heart?" Herbert's Liberty and Dickinson Chapter 8 Between Poetry and Devotion: Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, and T.S. Eliot Chapter 9 "Two worlds become much like each other": Poetic Co-inherence in Little Gidding and The Temple Chapter 10 The Temple in Fragments: The Reception of George Herbert in 20th-Century Japan Part 11 Travels Within: Herbert in Form and Embodiment Chapter 12 "Sweets compacted": Posies and Poems of George Herbert Chapter 13 Herbert, Heaney: At the Bodily Fulcrum Chapter 14 Dallas Wiebe's On the Cross: Herbertian Irony and the Poet's Afflicted Part 15 Time Travels: Herbert's Modern and Contemporary Renaissance Chapter 16 "Spontaneity:" Herbert's Irruption in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Chapter 17 In a Serious House: Church-Going with George Herbert and Philip Larkin Chapter 18 Anthony Hecht's "Exalted Manna" Chapter 19 "That I may sit and write": Herbert's Presence in Recent British Poetry