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In the following essay excerpt, Rollin analyzes
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” to determine
Herrick’s poetic intent.
While it is only Herrick’s “Corinna’s Going AMaying” that can appropriately be compared with Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” it is the older poet’s “To the Virgins, to make much of Time” that has fixed the concept of carpe diem in the popular imagination forever. Scholarly investigation has revealed that Herrick is heavily indebted to a variety of sources—some classical, some English—in this poem, but his synthesizing is so artful that the lyric’s derivativeness is hardly noticeable. Not in the least pedantic, this poem has been so popular that its opening line...
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