Robert Herrick - Selected Poems -

SOFTBACK ?From THE PENGUIN POETS Series,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: Penguin* Binding and cover condition: Colour border to textual soft card covers, no bumps, slight rubs. Minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine, no creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Fairly heavy paper colouration throughout. GD* Illustrations:- None.* Pages: 204 pp. text. xx pp. index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Poems from ?Hesperides? and ?Noble Numbers?. selected and introduced by John Hayward. During his eighty four years he wrote over 2,500 lyric poems and epigrams which dealt with English country life and its seasons, village customs, complimentary poems to various ladies and his friends, themes taken from classical writings and a solid bedrock of Christian faith, not intellectualized but underpinning the rest. The over-riding message of Herrick?s work is that life is short, the world is beautiful, love is splendid, and we must use the short time we have to make the most of it.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear and some paper colouration reducing it to GD+* Hayward, John