ROBERT HERRICK (POET TO POET) (PB)

In the Faber Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Robert Herrick was born in London in 1591 and went to St. John's College, Cambridge. He became a Cavalier poet before being ordained in 1623. Charles I gave him the living of Dean Prior in 1629 where he wrote some of his best work including Hesperides, published in 1648. He died in 1674.