Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) - Softcover

Herrick, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415967511 ISBN 13: 9780415967518

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) was perhaps the greatest poet to have worked in Devon. Born in London, the son of a goldsmith, he studied at Cambridge and later fell in with the London poets who had gathered around the magnetic figure of Ben Jonson. In order to make a living - since he had not pursued the family trade - he entered the Church and in 1627 was appointed chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, whom he accompanied on an unsuccessful military expedition in 1627. In 1629 he was appointed to the living of Dean Prior, a village on the edge of Dartmoor, about half way between Exeter and Plymouth. He was to remain there for the rest of his life, with the exception of the Cromwellian period from 1647-1660, during which he was expelled for his royalist sympathies and, no doubt, also doctrinal disagreements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415967511
• ISBN 13: 9780415967518
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Editor: Jesson-Dibley David