SOURCE: “Robert Herrick's Recreative Pastoral,” in Genre, Vol. VII, No. 2, June 1974, pp. 183-95.
In the following essay, Gertzman illustrates Robert Herrick's “recreative” (as opposed to didactic) pastoral in several poems in his Hesperides, noting that the “cleanly wanton” poems are marked by playful humor, fancy, naive enthusiasm, and genial humility.
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