Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems

ROBERT HERRICK: SELECTED POEMS

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) was one of the Cavalier poets (other Cavalier poets included Suckling, Carew and Lovelace). He was born in London and lived much of his life in the rough remoteness of a parish in Devonshire. He studied at Cambridge (St John's College and Trinity Hall). His law studies were dropped in 1623, and he was ordained as a deacon and priest in 1624.

Herrick's major work, Hesperides or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., wa...