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The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick - Volume I (Hardcover)
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The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick - Volume I (Hardcover)
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This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of
English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick's large
printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product
of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation
of all fifty-seven known surviving copies of Hesperides. In
addition it includes a much needed new biography, covering the
suicide of his father, his apprenticeship as a goldsmith-banker,
and his subsequent career in Cambridge, London, and Devon. It
provides a survey of Herrick's fluctuating critical reputation-from
'the first in rank and station of English song-writers' to
'trivially charming'-and a detailed reconstruction of the original
printing and publishing, just after the first Civil War, of a book
which was the first 'Complete Works' to be published by an English
poet. There is also a newly ordered sequence of Herrick's letters
from Cambridge, his only surviving prose. An extensive commentary
on Hesperides is placed in Volume II so that readers can use it
side by side with the poems if they wish. The commentary gives new
translations of Herrick's hundreds of classical allusions, and
quotes his equally numerous Biblical ones, both of them far more
extensive, and frequently far more playful, than has hitherto been
realised. It also notes many parallels between Herrick's work and
that of contemporaries, especially Jonson, Shakespeare, Burton, and
John Fletcher, and his habit of echoing or quoting himself, a
tendency which reinforces the strong sense of Herrick's persona
dominating the collection. Full explanations are given of
contemporary personal, political, and cultural references.
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