Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick

This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick''s large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation of all fifty-seven known surviving copies of Hesperides. In addition it includes a much needed new biography, covering the suicide of ...