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See also:HERRICK, See also:ROBERT (1591-1674) , See also:English poet, was See also:born at Cheapside, See also:London, and baptized cm the 24th of See also:August 1.591. He belonged to an old See also:Leicestershire See also:family which had settled in London. He was the seventh See also:child of See also:Nicholas Herrick, See also:gold-See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith, of the See also:city of London, who died in 1592, under suspicion of See also:suicide. The See also:children were brought up by their See also:uncle, See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Herrick, one of the richest goldsmiths of the See also:day, to whom in 1607 Robert was See also:bound apprentice. He had probably been educated at See also:Westminster school, and in 1614 he proceeded to See also:Cambridge; and it was no doubt during his See also:apprenticeship that the See also:young poet was introduced to that circle of wits which he was afterwards to adorn. He seems to have been See also:present at the first performance of The Alchemist in Oro, and it was probably about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that See also:Ben See also:Jonson adopted him as his poetical " son." He entered the university as See also:fellow-commoner of St See also:John's See also:College, and he remained there until, in 1616, upon taking his degree, he removed to Trinity See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall. A lively See also:series of fourteen letters to his uncle, mainly begging for See also:money, exists at See also:Beaumanoir, and shows that Herrick suffered much from poverty at the university. He took his B.A. in 16r7, and in 162o he became See also:master of arts. From this date until 1627 we entirely lose sight of him; it has been variously conjectured that he spent these years preparing for the See also:ministry at Cambridge, or in much looser pursuits in London. In 1629 (See also:September 30) he was presented by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to the vicarage of See also:Dean See also:Prior, not far from See also:Totnes in See also:Devonshire. At Dean Prior he resided quietly until 1648, when he was ejected by the Puritans. The solitude there oppressed him at first; the See also:village was dull and remote, and he See also:felt very bitterly that he was cut off from all See also:literary and social associations; but soon the quiet existence in Devonshire soothed and delighted him. He was pleased with the rural and semi-See also:pagan customs that survived in the village, and in some of his most charming verses he has immortalized the See also:morris-dances, wakes and quintains, the See also:Christmas See also:mummers and the Twelfth See also:Night revellings, that diversified the quiet of Dean Prior. Herrick never married, but lived at the vicarage surrounded by a happy family of pets, and tended by an excellent old servant named Prudence See also:Baldwin. His first See also:appearance in See also:print was in sonne verses he contributed to A Description of the King and See also:Queen of Fairies, in 1635. In 1650 a See also:volume of Wit's Recreatialc contained sixty-two small poems afterwards acknowledged by Herrick in the See also:Hesperides, and one not reprinted until our own day. These partial appearances make it probable that he visited London from time to time. We have few hints of his See also:life as a clergyman. See also:Anthony See also:Wood says that Herricks's sermons were florid and witty, and that he was " beloved by the neighbouring gentry." A very aged woman, one Dorothy King, stated that the poet once threw his See also:sermon at his See also:congregation, cursing them for their inattention. The same old woman recollected his favourite See also:pig, which he taught to drink out of a See also:tankard. He
was a devotedly loyal supporter of the king during the See also:Civil See also:War, and immediately upon his ejection in 1648 he published his celebrated collection of lyrical poems, entitled Hesperides; or the See also:Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick. The " divine works " See also:bore the See also:title of See also:Noble See also:Numbers and the date 1647. That he was reduced to See also:great poverty in London has been stated, but there is no See also:evidence of the fact. In August 1662 Herrick returned to Dean Prior, supplanting his own supplanter, Dr John Syms. He died in his eighty-See also:fourth See also:year, and was buried at Dean Prior, See also:October 15, 1674. A See also:monument was erected to his memory in the See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in 1857, by Mr See also:Perry Herrick, a descendant of a See also:collateral See also:branch of the family. The Hesperides (and Noble Numbers) is the only volume which Herrick published, but he contributed poems to Lachrymae Musarum (1649) and to Wit's Recreations.
As a See also:pastoral lyrist Herrick stands first among English poets. His See also:genius is limited in See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope, and comparatively unambitious, but in its own See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field it is unrivalled. His tiny poems—and of the thirteen See also:hundred that he has See also:left behind him not one is See also:long—are like jewels of various value, heaped together in a See also:casket. Some are of the purest See also:water, radiant with See also:light and See also:colour, some were originally set in false See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal that has tarnished, some were See also:rude and repulsive from the first. Out of the unarranged, heterogeneous See also:mass the student has to select what is not See also:worth See also:reading, but, after he has See also:cast aside all the rubbish, he is astonished at the amount of excellent and exquisite See also:work that remains. Herrick has himself summed up, very correctly, the themes of his sylvan muse when he says:
" I sing of See also:brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers,
Of See also:April; May, of See also:June and See also:July See also:flowers,
I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides and of their bridal-cakes."
He saw the picturesqueness of English homely life as no one before him had seen 'it, and he described it in his See also:verse with a certain See also:purple glow of Arcadian See also:romance over it, in tones of immortal vigour and freshness. His love poems are still more beautiful; the best of them have an ardour and See also:tender sweetness which give them a See also:place in the forefront of See also:modern lyrical See also:poetry, and remind us of what was best in See also:Horace and in the poets of the See also:Greek See also:anthology.
After suffering See also:complete extinction for more than a See also:century, the fame of Herrick was revived by John See also:Nichols, who introduced his poems to the readers of the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine of 1796 and 1797. Dr See also:Drake followed in 1798 with considerable See also:enthusiasm. By 1810 See also:interest had so far revived in the forgotten poet that Dr See also:Nott ventured to print a selection from his poems, which attracted the favourable See also:notice of the Quarterly See also:Review. In 1823 the Hesperides and the Noble Numbers were for the first time edited by Mr T. See also:Maitland, afterwards See also:Lord Dundrennan. Since then the reprints of Herrick's have been too numerous to be mentioned here; there are few English poets of the 17th century whose writings are now more accessible. See F. W. Moorman, Robert Herrick (1910). (E.
End of Article: HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674)
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