Clergyman and poet, Robert Herrick was born in London, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a wealthy goldsmith. In november 1592, two days after making a will, his father killed himself by jumping from the fourth floor window of his house. However, the Queen’s Almoner did not confiscate the Herrick estate for the crown as was usually the case with suicides. There is no record of Herrick attending school. In 1607 he was apprenticed to his uncle Sir William Herrick as a goldsmith. A country life: to his brother M. Tho. Herrick (1610) is Herrick earliest known poem, and deals with the move from Londonto farm life in Leicestershire. To my Dearest sisters M. Merice Herrick was written before 1612. He entered St. John’sCollege, Cambridgein 1613, and became friends with Clipsby Crew to whom he addressed seveeral poems such as “Nuptial Song”. [download]
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