Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick (baptized 24 August 1591; buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric.
He is best known for his book Hesperides, which is a collection of poems.
"To the Virgins, to Make More Time" includes the first line, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may," a carpe diem poem says.
Early life
Robert Herrick, a wealthy goldsmith, was born in Cheapside, London, and was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick. He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a wealthy Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester who had inherited the property Greyfriars Abbey, which had inherited it after Henry VIII's dissolution in the mid-16th century. Nicholas Herrick died after a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old (whether this was suicide remains unclear).
Herrick's education in Westminster is based on the phrase "beloved Westminster" in his poem "Tears to Thamesis," but the allusion is to the city, not the academy. It's more likely that he, along with his uncle's children, attended The Merchant Taylors' School. In 1607, he apprenticed to his other uncle, Sir William Herrick, a goldsmith and jeweller to the king. The apprenticeship came to an end after only six years when Herrick, 22, gained admission to St John's College, Cambridge. He later moved to Trinity Hall, graduating in 1617. Herrick was a member of Sons of Ben, a group centered on an admiration for Ben Jonson's writings, to whom he wrote at least five poems. Herrick was admitted to the Church of England in 1623 and in 1629, she became the vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire.
Restoration and later life
Herrick petitioned for King Charles II's return to the throne in 1660. He had gained favor by writing verses describing Charles II and his brother James' births well before the Civil War. Herrick revived Dean Prioritaria in the summer of 1662 and lived there until his death in October 1674 at the age of 83. The date of his death is uncertain, but he was buried on October 15th.
Herrick was a bachelor for the rest of his life. Many of the people he names in his poems are believed to be fictional. Dean Prior, who is buried in the churchyard of St George the Martyr parish church, is buried.