Hesperides

work by Herrick

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  • Robert Herrick, detail of an engraving by W. Marshall, from the frontispiece to Hesperides, 1648
    In Robert Herrick

    …book that Herrick published was Hesperides (1648), which included His Noble Numbers, a collection of poems on religious subjects with its own title page dated 1647 but not previously printed. Hesperides contained about 1,400 poems, mostly very short, many of them being brief epigrams. His work appeared after that in…

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