Herrick: Everyman's Poetry: 12 (Everyman Poetry Library) - Softcover

Herrick, Robert

 
9780460877992: Herrick: Everyman's Poetry: 12 (Everyman Poetry Library)

Synopsis

Herrick lived through civil wars and Restoration. In his best-known poems- Cherry Ripe and Gather ye rosebuds while ye may' he writes of loss, of the passing of time, of death.

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About the Author

Douglas Brooks-Davies was born in Wimbledon in 1942, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Brasenose College, Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research fellow, he has published widely on Renaissance and later literature, and is now a freelance writer. His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.

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