Author: Herrick, Robert,
Title: Some Poems.
Description: Norfolk, CT, New Directions, (1941). G PB. Born in London in 1591, son of a prosperous goldsmith, Herrick became part of a literary coterie centered around Ben Johnson. Later he received a small eccleiastical living in Devonshire where he preached witty sermons and lived with a household of pets including a pig who drank from a tankard. His Herperides was issued in 1648. Green binding, red/black lettering. Edges tanned.

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