Friday 23 April 2010

DARE TO BE TRUE


Some iconic English "Georges" (fact or fiction, past or present, living or dead) for St George's Day. Each one represents something quintessentially English.

Pictured above: George Herbert (1593-1633), leading figure of the group that has come to be known to history as the Metaphysical Poets. He was born in Wales, but there wasn't as much of a distinction of those things in those days - and it's his distinctive and enduring contribution to English poetry, in a tradition that was effectively cut short by the titanic political struggles of the mid-seventeenth century and the cultural earthquake attendant on it.

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