Clarety Clarity
Colin Burrow: Herrick and His Maidens, 31 July 2014
The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
edited by Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly.
Oxford, 504 pp. and 803 pp., £125, October 2013,978 0 19 921284 2 Show More
edited by Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly.
Oxford, 504 pp. and 803 pp., £125, October 2013,
“... year, ‘confine him to the brew-houses,/The glass-house, dye-vats and their furnaces.’ Cain and Connolly don’t note this echo, but it does help date this poem, and is a good indicator of how rambunctiously Herrick could transform his master. He implicitly compares himself to the fiery element that had wrecked some of Jonson’s prize works in a poem in ... ”