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Robert Herick

Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet who was born in 1591 in London. He was the seventh child and fourth son of a London goldsmith, Nicholas Herrick. His father apparently committed suicide when Robert was 14 months old. Herrick's poetry was both praised for its lyricism and condemned for its obscenities during his lifetime. He is now recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of his age. His most famous work is Hesperides, published in 1648, which includes well-known poems like "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and "Corinna's going a Maying." One poem in the collection, "To the reverend shade of

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Robert Herick

Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet who was born in 1591 in London. He was the seventh child and fourth son of a London goldsmith, Nicholas Herrick. His father apparently committed suicide when Robert was 14 months old. Herrick's poetry was both praised for its lyricism and condemned for its obscenities during his lifetime. He is now recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of his age. His most famous work is Hesperides, published in 1648, which includes well-known poems like "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and "Corinna's going a Maying." One poem in the collection, "To the reverend shade of

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P r ese n ted b y IVA N

ROBERT
HERICK
• Baptized on August 24, 1591
• Seventh child and fourth son of a London goldsmith, Nicholas

Herrick, and Juliana Stone Herrick.


• 14 months old when his father apparently committed suicide

by “falling” from an upper story window of his house in


Cheapside on November 9, 1592.
• Almost forgotten in the 18th century
• In the 19th century alternately applauded for his

poetry’s lyricism and condemned for its


“obscenities,”
• In the latter half of the 20th century, finally

becoming recognized as one of the most


accomplished nondramatic poets of his age
• Long dismissed as merely a “minor poet”.
The achievement represented by his only book, the

collection of poems entitled Hesperides: Or, The


HIS WORKS Works Both Humane & Divine (1648).

While some of his individual poems—

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,”

“Upon Julia’s Clothes,” and;

“Corinna’s going a Maying,”


One of that collection’s best-known works, for example, is

“To the reverend shade of his religious Father,” in which


Herrick resurrects his father by eternizing him in poetry:

“For my life mortal, Rise from out thy Herse, / And take a

life immortal from my Verse.”


To The Reverend Shade Of
His Religious Father
That for seven lusters I did never come

To do the rites to thy religious tomb ;


That neither hair was cut, or true tears shed
By me, o'er thee, as justments to the dead,
Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know

Whether thy bones had here their rest or no.


But now 'tis known, behold! behold, I bring
Unto thy ghost th' effused offering :
And look what smallage, night-shade, cypress, yew,

Unto the shades have been, or now are due,


Here I devote ; and something more than so ;
I come to pay a debt of birth I owe.
  Thou gav'st me life, but mortal; for that
one
    Favour I'll make full satisfaction;
    For my life mortal rise from out thy
hearse.
    And take a life immortal from my verse.
CONCLUSION
In Robert Herrick's poem, we are
immediately struck with the respectful
and solemn tone intended by the poet.
The title states up front: to the
REVEREND shade of his RELIGIOUS
father.
THEME
The overriding message in this
Herrick's work is that life is
short, the world is beautiful
and love is splendid. We must
use the short time we have to
make the most of it.
Thank You!
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