George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as one of the foremost British devotional lyricists. He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity Vollege, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention ofKing James I. He sat in Parliament in 1624 and briefly in 1625.
Robert Herrick was almost forgotten in the 18th century, and in the 19th century was alternately applauded for his poetry’s lyricism and condemned for its “obscenities,” In the latter half of the 20th century, he finally became recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of his age. Long dismissed as merely a “minor poet” and, as a consequence, neglected or underestimated by scholars and critics, the achievement represented by his only book, the collection of poems entitled Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine (1648), is gradually coming to be more fully appreciated.
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