The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
Volume I
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199212842
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages582 pages
- Size 240x162x38 mm
- Weight 1024 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 black-and-white halftones, 4 black-and-white line drawings 0
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Short description:
This first volume of the new edition of Robert Herrick's poetry contains Herrick's only published collection, Hesperides (1648).
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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 his father, his apprenticeship as a goldsmith-banker, and his subsequent career in Cambridge, London, and Devon. It provides a survey of Herrick's fluctuating critical reputation-from 'the first in rank and station of English song-writers' to 'trivially charming'-and a detailed reconstruction of the original printing and publishing, just after the first Civil War, of a book which was the first 'Complete Works' to be published by an English poet. There is also a newly ordered sequence of Herrick's letters from Cambridge, his only surviving prose. An extensive commentary on Hesperides is placed in Volume II so that readers can use it side by side with the poems if they wish. The commentary gives new translations of Herrick's hundreds of classical allusions, and quotes his equally numerous Biblical ones, both of them far more extensive, and frequently far more playful, than has hitherto been realised. It also notes many parallels between Herrick's work and that of contemporaries, especially Jonson, Shakespeare, Burton, and John Fletcher, and his habit of echoing or quoting himself, a tendency which reinforces the strong sense of Herrick's persona dominating the collection. Full explanations are given of contemporary personal, political, and cultural references.
The Publisher has shown largesse in matters of arrangement and presentation: the text of Hesperides are beautifully reproduced on pages uncluttered with footnotes, and even the textual collations appear in large enough type, and with sufficient use of interlinear spacing, to spare the no longer youth eyes of those readers most likely to study them closely ... Cane and Connolly's Herrick is a superb achievement.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Hesperides
His Noble Numbers
Letters from Cambridge
Appendix 1: Printing and Publishing History
Appendix 2: Collation
