{"product_id":"2026200016846-secondhand-herrick","title":"Herrick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets of the seventeenth century captured the fleeting beauty of life with such sensuous precision as Robert Herrick, and this carefully curated selection from The Laurel Poetry Series presents his finest verse in a form both accessible and authoritative. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by William Jay Smith — with Richard Wilbur serving as General Editor — the volume gathers Herrick's most celebrated lyrics, including the immortal To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, illustrating the poet's masterful command of the carpe diem tradition alongside his tender devotional verse and playful epigrams.\n\nHerrick's work chronicles a world of pastoral delight and mortal urgency, where English country life is rendered in lines of extraordinary craft and musicality — a style shaped equally by classical Latin poets such as Horace and Catullus and by the courtly elegance of the Cavalier tradition. His poetry argues, with disarming lightness, that beauty and pleasure are not distractions from life's brevity but its very meaning. Smith's editorial apparatus places these poems in their rich historical and literary context, making this volume an indispensable companion for both the newcomer and the seasoned reader of English Renaissance verse. For anyone who has yet to encounter Herrick's world of blossoms, Julia, and the rose's brief, magnificent hour — the discovery awaits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269343944923,"sku":"2026200016846-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/48dd7106-331f-40d0-8362-316cc06f2b64.png?v=1788998830","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016846-secondhand-herrick","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}