John Drury is Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He began as a biblical scholar, and while Dean of King's College, Cambridge, worked with Frank Kermode on the Gospels for The Literary Guide to the Bible. As Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, he studied Christian paintings and their meaning in Painting the Word. Music at Midnight is the culmination of a lifetime's interest in Herbert, whose Complete Poetry Drury is now editing for Penguin Classics.

John Drury is Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He began as a biblical scholar, and while Dean of King's College, Cambridge, worked with Frank Kermode on the Gospels for The Literary Guide to the Bible. As Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, he studied Christian paintings and their meaning in Painting the Word. Music at Midnight is the culmination of a lifetime's interest in Herbert, whose Complete Poetry Drury is now editing for Penguin Classics.