Robert Herrick and the makings of 'Hesperides.'

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

When T. S. Eliot asked "What Is Minor Poetry?" and answered, by way of example, Robert Herrick's poems, he pointed in particular to lack of uniformity in Herrick's work. Contrasting Herrick's poetry and George Herbert's The Temple, where "many of the poems strike us as just as good as those we have met within anthologies," Eliot decided that "there is no such continuous conscious purpose about Herrick's poems."(1) By pronouncing that the aesthetic quality of Herrick's poetry wavers, Eliot echoed a criticism that dates back at least to 1675, when Edward Phillips complained of ...

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