1591 - 1674.

The seventh child and fourth son born to a London goldsmith.

Educated at the University of Cambridge.

In 1629 became vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire.

During the Great Rebellion in 1647 he was deprived of his position because of his Royalist sympathies.

Following the restoration of Charles II, Herrick was reinstated where he resided from 1662 until his death.

He never married and many of the women mentioned in his poems are thought to have been fictional.

His principal work is Hesperides, or, the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. (1648). A group of religious poems printed in 1647 appear within the same book under a separate title page bearing the name His Noble Numbers. The entire collection contains more than 1200 short poems.



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