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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 — Robert Herrick

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

Robert Herrick

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 676 pages

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers gathers Robert Herrick's lyric poetry: the secular Hesperides, with poems on love, nature, flowers and the passing of time, and the devotional Noble Numbers. This two-volume edition, edited by Alfred Pollard with a preface by A. C. Swinburne, invites listeners into the quiet music and warmth of a 17th-century English parson-poet.

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Contents

  1. ROBERT HERRICK
  2. THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ROBERT HERRICK THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  5. EDITOR'S NOTE.
  6. PREFACE.
  7. LIFE OF HERRICK.
  8. NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.
  9. HESPERIDES.
  10. NOTES.
  11. NOTES.
  12. ROBERT HERRICK THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE
  13. HESPERIDES.
  14. HIS NOBLE NUMBERS: OR, HIS PIOUS PIECES.
  15. POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN HESPERIDES.
  16. NOTES.
  17. NOTES.
  18. NOBLE NUMBERS.
  19. NOTES TO ADDITIONAL POEMS.
  20. APPENDIX I. HERRICK'S POEMS IN WITTS RECREATIONS.
  21. APPENDIX II. HERRICK'S FAIRY POEMS AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE KING AND QUEENE OF FAYRIES PUBLISHED 1635.
  22. APPENDIX III. POOR ROBIN'S ALMANACK.
  23. INDEX TO PERSONS MENTIONED.
  24. INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
  25. APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS, etc.
  26. NOTE.
  27. APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS.
  28. NOTES TO APPENDIX.
  29. INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
  30. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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