num_pages: 90
description: Making available the full range of Herrick's poetry, this selection includes musings of joyful eroticism, warm observations of rural life, and shrewd epigrams. These poems also demonstrate how Herrick's work is shadowed by an elegiac awareness of mortality and the fragility of beauty.
language: English
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems
genres: British Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.