LaDonna Friesen

George Herbert’s 82

Arts & Literature

“Readers of Dr. Nelson’s George Herbert’s 82 sit in privileged theater seats, surrounded by varied and respected scholarly voices, experiencing the drama of Herbert’s ‘Humilitie’ and keenly sensing the social concern that inspires Humilitie’s weeping. Nelson has immersed himself in Herbert’s poetry, and with special consideration of its Psalm emulation in his chart and rhetoric, he also sets the stage for Herbert readers to explore intertextual possibilities.”