作者: Ruth Connolly

This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick’s large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of …

Robert Herrick has long been one of the best loved of English lyric poets. Known through the centuries as the author of ‘Gather ye rosebuds’, he also wrote, as this new edition shows, hundreds of son …

Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Pens …

Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Pens …