He had obtained favour by writing verses celebrating the births of both Charles II and his brother James before the Civil War. When King Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, Herrick petitioned for his own restoration to his living. He spent some time preparing his lyric poems for publication and had them printed in 1648 under the title Hesperides or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick, with a dedication to the Prince of Wales. He returned to London to live in Westminster and depend on the charity of his friends and family. In 1647, in the wake of the English Civil War, Herrick was ejected from his vicarage for refusing the Solemn League and Covenant. Herrick was ordained into the Church of England in 1623 and in 1629 became the vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire. Herrick became a member of the Sons of Ben, a group centred on an admiration for the works of Ben Jonson, to whom he wrote at least five poems. He later migrated to Trinity Hall, graduating in 1617. The apprenticeship ended after only six years, when Herrick, aged 22, gained admission at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his other uncle, Sir William Herrick, a goldsmith and jeweller to the king. It is more likely that he, like his uncle's children, attended The Merchant Taylors' School. The tradition that Herrick received his education at Westminster is based on the words "beloved Westminster" in his poem "Tears to Thamesis", but the allusion is to the city, not the school. Nicholas Herrick died in a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old (whether this was suicide remains unclear). He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood on after Henry VIII's dissolution in the mid-16th century. This includes the carpe diem poem " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".īorn in Cheapside, London, Robert Herrick was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric.
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