| I593
|
Herbert born (3 April) in Montgomery in Wales, the fifth son of Richard and Magdalen Herbert. Izaak Walton
born. Death of Marlowe.
Hooker's
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity (Books I-IV)
published. |
| I595
|
Sidney's Apologie
for Poetrie and Spenser's Amoretti
and Epithalamion published. Midsummer Night's Dream
first (?) acted; also Richard II. |
| I596
|
Herbert's father dies; survived by his
wife Magdalen, seven sons, and three daughters. The eldest son Edward
matriculates at University College, Oxford. Spenser's Faerie Queene
(Books IV-VI) published; also his Four Hymns. The
Merchant of Venice first (?) acted. |
| I597
|
Bacon's
first ten Essays published. |
| I599
|
Edward Herbert
marries a cousin, Mary Herbert. Oliver
Cromwell born. Death of Spenser. Julius Caesar and Henry
V first acted. |
| I600
|
Death of Hooker. Fairfax's
translation of Tasso published. Hamlet first (?) acted. |
| I60I |
Execution of Essex. Lancelot Andrewes
appointed Dean of Westminster. Donne
marries Anne More. Twelfth Night first (?) acted. |
| I603
|
Death of Elizabeth I;
accession of James
I. The
Millenary Petition. |
| I604
|
Richard
Bancroft appointed Archbishop. The
Hampton Court Conference. Othello first acted. |
| I605
|
Herbert attends Westminster
School. Bacon's Advancement of Learning published. Gunpowder Plot. Sir
Thomas Browne born. |
| I606
|
Macbeth, Jonson's
Volpone and Tourneur's
Revenger's Tragedy first (?) acted. |
| I608
|
Milton
born. Robert
Cecil created Earl of Salisbury, appointed Lord Treasurer. Sylvester's translation
of Du Bartas: Ist complete edition. Herbert's mother marries Sir
John Danvers. |
| I609
|
Herbert matriculates at Trinity College, Cambridge
Spenser's Faerie Queene: Ist folio edition. Shakespeare's Sonnets
published. |
| I6I0 |
Jonson's Alchemist first acted;
also Shakespeare's Winter's Tale (I6II). Galileo reports on his telescopic view of the heavens. |
| I6II |
George Abbot
appointed Archbishop. The
King James ('Authorized') Version of the Bible published. The
Tempest first (?) acted. Chapman's
Iliad completed. |
| I6I2 |
Death of the heir apparent Prince
Henry; Herbert contributes two memorial poems in Latin, his first
verses to be published. Death of Salisbury. Robert Carr,
later Earl of Somerset, in favour. |
| I6I3 |
Princess
Elizabeth marries Frederick
Elector Palatine. Sir
Thomas Overbury murdered. Crashaw born. Nicholas
Ferrar visits the Continent (to I6I8). |
| I6I4 |
Ralegh's History
of the World published. Webster's Duchess
of Malfi first (?) acted. |
| I6I5 |
Donne ordained. George Villiers, later Duke of Buckingham, in favour. |
| I6I6 |
Death of Shakespeare. Herbert elected
major fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge. Jonson's Works published. |
| I6I7 |
Death of Donne's wife. |
| I6I8 |
Herbert appointed Reader in Rhetoric at
Cambridge. Ralegh executed. Bacon appointed Lord Chancellor. Cowley born. |
| I6I9 |
Edward Herbert appointed ambassador in
Paris. Lancelot Andrewes appointed Bishop of Winchester. |
| I620
|
Herbert elected Public Orator at
Cambridge (to I628). Settlement of first New
England colony by the Pilgrim Fathers. Bacon's Novum Organum
published. |
| I62I |
Bacon impeached. Donne appointed Dean of
St. Paul's. Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy published. Marvell
born. |
| I622
|
Henry Vaughan
born. |
| I623
|
The Ist Shakespeare Folio published. |
| I624
|
Herbert elected to represent Montgomery in
Parliament (also in I625). Edward Herbert's De
veritate published in Paris. |
| I625
|
Death of James I; accession of Charles I
who marries Henrietta Maria of France. Outbreak of Plague. Nicholas Ferrar settles at
Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire. Bacon dedicates his Translation
of Certaine Psalmes to Herbert. Death of Webster. |
| I626
|
Herbert presented to a prebend in
Huntingdonshire; four miles from Little Gidding. Death of Bacon;
Herbert contributes a memorial poem in Latin. Death of Lancelot
Andrewes. John
Aubrey born. |
| I627
|
Death of Herbert's mother; the funeral
sermon, delivered by Donne, was accompanied when published by
commemorative poems including Herbert's Memoriae Matris sacrum.
|
| I628
|
Buckingham assasinated. William
Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood published. Bunyan
born. |
| I629
|
Marriage of Herbert to his stepfather's
cousin Jane Danvers. Edward Herbert
elevated to the peerage as Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Lancelot Andrewes'
XCVI Sermons published. |
| I630
|
Herbert instituted to the rectory at
Bemerton near Salisbury in April; ordained priest in September. Prince
Charles (later Charles II) born. Emigrations to New England (I630 ff.). |
| I63I |
Death of Donne. Dryden
born. |
| I632
|
Crashaw visits Little Gidding (I632 ff.). |
| I633
|
Charles I visits Little Gidding. William Laud
appointed Archbishop. Donne's Poems published. I March: Herbert's death, of consumption, just before
his fortieth birthday. |
| The Temple was
published posthumously in I633; Herbert's
translation of Luigi Cornaro's Trattato de la vita sobria, in
I634 (appended to Leonardus
Lessius's Hygiasticon); his 'Briefe Notes' on Juán de
Valdés's Hundred and Ten Considerations, in I638 (appended to its translation by Nicholas
Ferrar); Outlandish Proverbs, in I640
(enlarged edition as Jacula prudentum, I65I); A Priest to the Temple, in I652 (as part of Herbert's Remains); and
Musae responsoriae, in I662 (as part of
James Duport's Ecclesiastis Solomonis).
Excerpted from
Herbert, George. The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A.
Patrides, ed.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 4-5.
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