Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2024 | George Herbert’s Poetry and the Dissenting Tradition – LECTURE

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Location
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House London

Register today: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/dr-williamss-lecture-24

Speaker: Helen Wilcox (Professor Emeritus Bangor University)

This year’s lecture will focus on the work of the 17th-century devotional poet, George Herbert. One of only two surviving manuscripts of his poetry is MS Jones B 62 in Dr Williams’s Library. Why did the notebook of an Anglican poet-priest end up in a nonconformist collection? This lecture will explore what it was about Herbert’s poetry that appealed to Richard Baxter, Oliver Heywood and many others in the English dissenting tradition.