ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".

Detailed explanation-2: -Herrick became well known as a poet about 1620–30; many manuscript commonplace books from that time contain his poems. The only 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main poets of this movement were William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats. The birth of English Romanticism is often dated to the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.

Detailed explanation-4: -Today is the feast day of Caedmon, the first known English poet. As well as being the first named poet in the English literary tradition, he is also a significant figure in the history of people who hate singing in public, people who develop new talents later in life, and of cowherds.

Detailed explanation-5: -Another Grace for a Child. The Argument of his Book. The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad. Corinna’s going a Maying. Delight in Disorder. Discontents in Devon. His Farewell to Sack. His Prayer for Absolution. More items