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: -The term ‘secular poetry’ refers here to those works in the Old English verse corpus that are not concerned primarily with Christianity. A secular poem may include a reference to God or Heaven or salvation, but its primary subject is something other than scriptural narrative, a saint’s life, prayer or the like.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Pope was a prolific neoclassical poet during the Augustan Age, which occurred between 1700 and 1750.