“To read a poem is to hear the voice of the poet speaking across the…” — Robert Herrick

“To read a poem is to hear the voice of the poet speaking across the years.”

Presenting poetry as intimate communication across time · Essay and preface material, commonly attributed

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About Robert Herrick

24 August 1591–15 October 1674

Robert Herrick was born in London on 24 August 1591 and died at Dean Prior in Devon on 15 October 1674. He is remembered as one of the supreme lyric poets of seventeenth-century England: a writer capable of making a four-line epigram feel as complete as a polished jewel, and of making flowers, ribbons, country…

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