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Robert Herrick, detail of an engraving by W. Marshall, from the frontispiece to Hesperides, &elipsis; [Credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R.
Freeman & Co. Ltd.]
(baptized Aug. 24, 1591, London, Eng.—died October 1674, Dean Prior, Devonshire) English poet. Educated at Cambridge and later ordained, he became known as a poet in the 1620s and by the end of that decade had become a country vicar in Devonshire. A disciple of
Ben Jonson, he wrote classically influenced lyrics whose appeal is in their freshness and their perfection of form and style. The only book he published was
Hesperides (1648), containing 1,400 poems, mostly short, many of them
epigrams. He is best remembered for the line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.”
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