In the nineteenth century Herbert's reputation was revived by Coleridge in Britain and by Emerson in America; Ruskin, whose influence on the British reading public was enormous, learned most of The Temple by heart.
In the nineteenth century Herbert's reputation was revived by Coleridge in Britain and by Emerson in America; Ruskin, whose influence on the British reading public was enormous, learned most of The Temple from unaided memory and in full detail.