'But do not so': Herrick's ravishment and lyric address.(Robert Herrick, poet)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

An adept reader can find in the lyric poetry of the seventeenth century a repertoire of those postures and strategies that characterize the masculine eloquence of Renaissance humanist chivalry. A series of rhetorical performances give voice to the demands of masculine persuasive force upon a succession of mistresses, in manners ranging from expressions of barely restrained possessiveness to figurative, if not literal, assault; the poems also interrogate the nature of such desire, its follies and pleasures, sometimes comical and ironical in tone but often darkly serious and ...

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