Delight in Disorder (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Herrick
- First Published: 1648
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Cavalier poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Women, Clothing or dress
The Poem
Much poetry of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries incorporates the idea of a “slight disorder in the dress” as well as in the hair of its female subjects. Ben Jonson notes that there is something suspicious about a woman who is always neatly dressed: What is she hiding? He calls for the “sweet neglect” of “robes loosely flowing, hair as free” in the woman who would capture his heart. Similarly, Richard Lovelace bids Amarantha to “dishevel Her Hair,” letting it fly “as unconfined/ As its calm ravisher, the wind,” that she might...
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