Robert Herrick (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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The vast majority of Robert Herrick’s poetic works are included among the approximately fourteen hundred pieces contained in Hesperides, Herrick’s only known published book of verse. There are about forty poems from contemporary manuscripts and poetic miscellanies that have at various times been attributed to Herrick, but their authorship is not certain and has been the subject of much editorial speculation.
Herrick is known exclusively for his poems. All that survives of his writing apart from his poetry are some fifteen letters he wrote...
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