Selected Poems (Shearsman Classics) - Softcover

Strode, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184861005X ISBN 13: 9781848610057

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2009

Synopsis

William Strode, born in Plympton, Devon, in the early years of the 17th century, is a little-known poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, but he was a fine lyric poet and little deserves his oblivion. Hitherto the only publication of his work was by Bertram Dobell in 1907, since which time he has often been anthologised but never again granted a volume of his own. This volume redresses the balance.

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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: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184861005X
• ISBN 13: 9781848610057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108
• Editor: Frazer Tony