Music at MidnightFor the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language. 'Love bade me welcome . . .' 'Teach me my God and King . . .' George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences of grief,

in this age of female empowerment

when the air is still and the moon is full

shoots his horse and livestock

And now it won't rest

Complete with photographs

Face down and nude

You know the protocol

while his mother

Granny and the rest of the Heeler family

* Crushed and broken heart

A murderous tree

But are some secrets better left covered up