The English poet and Anglican parson Robert Herrick (1591-1674) invented a fanciful world compounded of pagan Rome and Christian England, of reality and fantasy, which he ruled as his poetic domain. Robert Herrick's 83 years stretched from Elizabethan...

Almost forgotten in the eighteenth century, and in the nineteenth century alternately applauded for his poetry's lyricism and condemned for its "obscenities," Robert Herrick is, in the latter half of the twentieth century, finally becoming recognized...

Issues concerning the love lyrics of seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick are discussed. The ethical criticism of Herrick's address to his mistresses and the content of masculine rhetoric, with reference to the works of Emmanuel Levinas are detailed. The rhetoric of many seventeenth-century love...

Romance novel publishers are stressing 'newness' in their marketing strategies including new imprints, promotional campaigns or debut authors. Firms discussed include Avon, Warner Vision, Harelquin and Dorchester. A LITTLE MORE THAN 300 years ago, the poet Robert Herrick observed, "New things succeed, as...