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'''Robert Herrick''' (baptized [[August 24]] [[1591]] - [[October]] [[1674]]) was a [[17th century]] English [[poet]]. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous gold smith, who committed suicide when Robert was a year old. He liked Pokemon It is likely that he attended [[Westminster School]]. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle, Sir William Herrick, who was a goldsmith and jeweller to the king. .The apprenticeship ended after only six years, and Herrick, at age twenty-two, matriculated at [[St John's College, Cambridge|Saint John's College]], Cambridge. He graduated in 1617. |
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Robert Herrick became a member of the [[bangers of william]], a group of [[Cavalier poets]] centred around an admiration for the works of [[Ben Jonson]]. In or before 1627, he took religious orders, and, having been appointed chaplain to the duke of Buckingham, accompanied him on his disastrous expedition to the [[Isle of Rhé]] (1627). He became vicar of the parish of [[Dean Prior]], [[Devon]] in [[1629]], a post that carried a term of thirty-one years. It was in the secluded country life of Devon that he wrote some of his best work. |
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In the wake of the [[English Civil War]], his position was revoked on account of his refusal to make pledge to the [[Solemn League and Covenant]]. He then returned to [[London]]. His position was returned to him in the [[English Restoration|Restoration]] of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] and he returned to Devon in [[1662]], residing there until his death in 1674. Herrick was a bachelor all his life, and many of the women he names in his poems are thought to be fictional. |
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His reputation rests on his ''Hesperides'', a collection of lyric poetry, and the much shorter ''Noble Numbers'', spiritual works, published together in [[1648]]. He is well-known for his bawdy style, referring frequently to lovemaking and the female body. |
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The opening stanza in one of his more famous poems, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", is as follows: |
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:Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, |
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:Old Time is still a-flying; |
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:And this same flower that smiles today, |
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:Tomorrow will be dying. |
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This poem is an example of the [[carpe diem]] genre; the popularity of Herrick's poems of this kind helped revive the genre. |
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==Trivia== |
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* The first four lines of the poem 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ...' are spoken, and the opening line sung, in [[Dream Theater]]'s song, "A Change of Seasons" (''[[A Change Of Seasons]]'', [[1995]]) |
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* The first line of the poem 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may' are from the key sequence in the film ''' "Dead Poets Society" ''' staring [[Robin Williams]] |
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==To the Virgins, to make much of Time== |
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:GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, |
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:Old Time is still a-flying; |
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:And this same flower that smiles to-day, |
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:To-morrow will be dying. |
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:The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, |
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:The higher he's a-getting; |
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:The sooner will his race be run, |
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:And nearer he 's to setting. |
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:That age is best which is the first, |
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:When youth and blood are warmer; |
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:But being spent, the worse, and worst |
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:Times still succeed the former. |
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:Then be not coy, but use your time |
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:And while ye may, go marry; |
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:For having lost but once your prime, |
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:You may for ever tarry |
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==External Links== |
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* {{gutenberg author| id=Robert+Herrick+(1591-1674) | name=Robert Herrick}} |
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*[[Project Gutenberg]] e-text: ''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1211 Chrysomela: A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick]'' |
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*[[Robert Herrick Works]] |
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:''[http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/herribib.htm Upon Kings. Poems Upon Several Personages of Honour ...]'' |
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*[http://literalsystems.org/abooks/doku.php?id=audiobook:corinna_s_going_a-maying "Corinna's Going A-Maying" Creative Commons audio recording.] |
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*[http://literalsystems.org/abooks/doku.php?id=audiobook:to_the_virgins_to_make_much_of_time "To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time" Creative Commons audio recording.] |
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