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Title: Robert Herrick (Everyman Poetry Library) by Douglas Brooks-Davies, Robert Herrick, Doulgas Brooks-Davies, Douglas Brooks-Davis ISBN: 0-460-87799-2 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may...
Comment: One of my favorite 17th century English writers, the Cavalier poet Robert Herrick succeeds handily at the dual task of producing ridiculously pretty--and humorously erotic--love poetry (addressed mainly to two women named Julia and Anthea), as well as a series of religiously oriented poetry that is a striking contrast to the love poems for its down-to-earth devotion. He also wrote a number of laudatory pieces for friends, relatives and the occasional noble, as well as a variety of comic/pastoral/vie quotidienne poems. It is interesting to me, however, that he is far better known for the erotic verse than any of his other work (particularly the devotional poetry), given that he was a clergyman by profession.
This volume provides a good, solid selection from Herrick's two collections, "Hesperides" and "His Noble Numbers", and includes several of his pastoral verses, encomia and comic pieces interspersed with the love poems and pious work. Alas, one of his most charming efforts is excluded, the lovely "Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast" (and how can you go wrong with a title like that?). Nowhere near as popular as other 17th century writers such as Donne or Jonson or Dryden, and indeed somewhat less respected by lit crit types because his poetry does talk about things like nipples, daffodils and strawberries dipped in cream, Robert Herrick's accessible, graceful, smooth-flowing verse is nevertheless very much worth reading.
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Title: The Cavalier Poets : An Anthology by Thomas Crofts ISBN: 0486287661 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Ben Jonson, Ben Johnson, George Parfitt ISBN: 0140422773 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Andrew Marvell Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Story Donno ISBN: 0140422137 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser, Thomas P. Roche, C. P. O'Connell ISBN: 0140422072 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by Denis Donoghue, Charles M. Coffin, John Donne ISBN: 0375757341 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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