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

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

by Robert Herrick (Author), Dr Douglas Brooks-Davies (Editor)

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 19 Aug 1996

ISBN 10: 0460877992
ISBN 13: 9780460877992
Book Overview: * Introduction by a leading writer or scholar * Comprehensive notes on author and text * Life and times chronology

Author Bio
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.