Talk:Robert Herrick (poet)

Link
I think the audio link "To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time" is no longer helpful as the site doesn't seem to host a recoding (any more?).

Pierre Kivi (talk) 14:08, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Clean-Up Requested
I think that this post needs some clean up.

1. There are no sources cited for this article. For example, the women in his poems are thought to be fictional by whom?

2. The trivia section is very confusing. I cleaned it up a bit, but I think it needs more work.

Kristy 18:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Sources would definitely be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.225.97.193 (talk) 15:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC) why robert herrick was expelled from the priory by the protectorate govermant

Elizabethan slang
The citation for the statement that dying referes to orgasm comes from the annual Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal, which contains spoof articles and farces. The information contained therein is not intended to be taken seriously. I have therefore removed the text, pending another source for this statement being found. Text removed:
 * (In Elizabethan slang, "dying" referred both to mortality and to orgasm.)

--Gak (talk) 18:54, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's perfectly valid: "To experience a sexual orgasm. (Most common as a poetical metaphor in the late 16th and 17th cent.)" —OED. Another in page 143, Capel Lofft and the English sonnet tradition 1770-1815, ISBN 9783772081040,  specifically stating that Herrick used it in that sense. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:29, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Inappropriate comparison
The assertion that Herrick's verse fell flat with "an audience whose tastes were tuned to the complexities of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell" is inappropriate. During his lifetime, Marvell was only known for his satires. Another comparison would be better.

It may be worth noting that Rose Macaulay's novel "They were defeated" is centred on Robert Herrick. --Martin Wyatt (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Excessive External links?
A large number of external links have just been added. Wikipedia is not a catalogue; if everything written about Herrick were to be listed here, it would make for an exceptionally long page. It would be better to use the material - with page references - in the article, rather than to create some arbitrary selection of materials that might possibly be useful for such a purpose. Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:25, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Robert harrick
Why did he write this poem about to deffodils 2400:1A00:B050:5A00:BC88:D446:60D6:C986 (talk) 14:22, 8 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Why not? 2601:84:8A00:18D7:6C6F:8098:4CEA:F3E1 (talk) 18:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Because he could spell ‘daffodills’?
 * 2001:8003:303D:BC00:E840:791B:2D2E:F99B (talk) 05:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)