Definition of Robert Herrick

1. Noun. English lyric poet (1591-1674).

Exact synonyms: Herrick
Generic synonyms: Poet

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
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Robert Herrick (current term)
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Robert I
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Literary usage of Robert Herrick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Robert Herrick (1591-1674) ;HE n exquisite " Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, London, in August 1591; the son of Nicholas Herrick, a goldsmith, ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1914)
"[Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, in August 1594, and died at Dean-Prior, in Devonshire, on the 15th of October, 1674. He published one volume, ..."

3. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"Robert Herrick If the novels of Robert Herrick were nothing else they would still be indispensable documents upon that first and second decade of the ..."

4. Seventeenth Century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry by Edmund Gosse (1897)
"Robert Herrick was one of the few who have been content to carry out this precept, and to walk through life with a little bread in the one hand, ..."

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