Ceremony and Art: Robert Herrick's Poetry Good binding - 1974

1974 peach hardcover w black spine, ex-library, in good condition; some wear to covers, especially corner edge wear, some stamps and writing, some underlining, good binding. DJ seems to have been cut, then glued to hardcovers. US media mail for shipping. Almost forgotten in the 18th century, and in the 19th century alternately applauded for his poetry's lyricism and condemned for its "obscenities," Robert Herrick is, 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" and, as a consequence, neglected or underestimated by scholars and critics, the achievement represented by his only book, the collection of poems entitled Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine (1648), is gradually coming to be more fully appreciated. While some of his individual poems—"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," "Upon Julia's Clothes," and "Corinna's going a Maying," for example—are among the most popular of all time, recent examinations of his Hesperides as a whole have begun to reveal a Herrick whose artistry in the arrangement of his volume approximates the artistry of his individual works and whose sensibility is complex but coherent, subtle as well as substantive. In short, Robert Herrick, who was proud to be one of "the Sons of Ben," has begun to be seen, along with his literary father Ben Jonson, as one of the most noteworthy figures of early-17th-century English poetry.