The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick

Paul Davis, The Times Literary Supplement The Publisher has shown largesse in matters of arrangement and presentation: the text of Hesperides are beautifully reproduced on pages uncluttered with footnotes, and even the textual collations appear in large enough type, and with sufficient use of interlinear spacing, to spare the no longer youth eyes of those readers most likely to study them closely ... Cane and Connolly's Herrick is a superb achievement.

Colin Burrow, London Review of Books Cain and Connolly's edition is remarkable ... [it] is bound to become the best guide to Herrick's verse. It deserves also to be regarded as one of the best sources of information about earlier 17th-century poetry.

Patrick J Murray, The Review of English Studies This major new edition of the poetry of Robert Herrick is a triumph ... the editors have produced a handsome publication befitting the increasingly vibrant and detailed scholarship surrounding the work of one of the masters of the English lyric poem ... Cain and Connolly's new edition accords with its subject perfectly. While the two volumes are weighty, their immense scholarship is lightly worn.

Tom Lockwood, The Seventeenth Century The Cain and Connolly Complete Poetry is a fine thing, full of interest and unostentatious excellence, humane and generous in its sympathies while at the same time being ambitious and exacting in its scholarship. Herrick has been lucky in his editors.

Niall Allsopp, Notes and Queries The edition provides an easily usable and citable, and most importantly accurate, text of the poems

Graham Parry, Spenser Review this new edition of Herricks Works is a monumental enterprise, brilliantly carried off.

<br>Tom Cain is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Literature at Newcastle University. He has worked on Herrick for many years, but has also written a study of Tolstoy (1977), and edited Nicholas Hilliard's Art of Limning (1981). His Revels Plays edition of Jonson's Poetaster (1995) was followed by an edition of the manuscript poems left by Herrick's patron, Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland (2001). He has written several essays on Donne and Jonson, and has just edited Jonson's Sejanus for the Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012). <p>Ruth Connolly is Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature at Newcastle University. Her current work focusses on the circulation of Stuart lyric poetry in manuscript, and on early modern women's writing, especially by members of on the Boyle family, Katherine Boyle Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1614-91) and Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678).<br>

Introduction ; Hesperides ; His Noble Numbers ; Letters from Cambridge ; Appendix 1: Printing and Publishing History ; Appendix 2: Collation