Robert Herrick

In 1591Robert Herrick was born in London, England where he became educated at an early age. Early in life he became part of a literary coterie and was something of a Propertius during these years. Later he received a small ecclesiastical living in Devonshire and gradually settled down to a peaceful country life. Herrick liked writing small poems instead of long poems. He never married and lived with a household of pets. Herrick would preach witty sermons which delighted the parish gentry and became very devoted to his village and its customs. During the civil war, Herrick supported the King and was ejected from his position during the Commonwealth. After the Restoration he got his job back again. At Totnes in 1674 Robert Herrick died at the age of eighty-four he. …