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"Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne": Essays on George Herbert (review)

'Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne," a product of the 1978 Herbert conference at the University of Michigan—Dearborn, has the same publisher and format as the Herrick Tercentenary volume, "Trust to Good Verses." Like its predecessor it is a good advertisement both for the Dearborn conferences and for the Pittsburgh Press, whose burgeoning seventeenthcentury studies seem to defy the iron law that scholarly books must be printed on larger and larger pages in smaller and smaller type. Since the editors have refrained from generalizing about the contents, one hesitates to do otherwise. The best thing about such collections, after all, is that a variety of contributors do what they do best. But, if Herbert criticism is partly divided between two schools, those primarily interested in close critical reading (like Stein, Rickey, and Vendler) and those primarily interested in reading the poems in a religious and historical context (such as Tuve and Joseph Summers), then at least some of the essays ring changes on that pattern.