'Lords of wine and oile' : community and conviviality in the poetry of Robert Herrick

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'Lords of wine and oile' : community and conviviality in the poetry of Robert Herrick

edited by Ruth Connolly and Tom Cain

Oxford University Press, 2011

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. [317]-326

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'Lords of Wine and Oile' provides a long overdue book-length appraisal of the major seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick. The collection reads his poetry in the context of his literary, musical, political, and religious affiliations and looks at how he both presents and constructs ideals of community through his work. Herrick is best known for his poetry's grace, good humour, and tolerant inclusiveness, characteristics at odds with the publication of his work close to the end of the Civil Wars. This collection places Herrick's poetry in a much wider chronological context beginning with his early career as a manuscript poet in Jacobean London. Contributors present original research to situate Herrick within the coteries of Ben Jonson and Thomas Stanley, uncover the Royalism of Herrick's publishers, and identify the printer of Hesperides. Others examine how the context of publication in 1648 gives a political colouring to Herrick's imitations of Ovid and Anacreon and how Herrick, like Katherine Philips, uses the theme of friendship and the mode of print to construct an idea of the autonomous author. Two essays explore Herrick's musical collaborations with Henry Lawes, the first such work since 1976, and analyse the influence of musical settings and group performance on the interpretation of Herrick's lyrics. The collection also showcases an important debate on the challenges posed by Herrick's work, which consciously rejects competitive anxiety and narrative momentum, for historicist and postmodernist literary criticism. Contributors include Stella Achilleos, Line Cottegnies, John Creaser, Achsah Guibbory, Stacey Jocoy, Leah Marcus, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Nicholas McDowell, Michelle O'Callaghan, Graham Parry, Syrithe Pugh, and Richard Wistreich.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • A NOTE ON QUOTATIONS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction: Herrick's Communities of Manuscript and Print
  • 1. Why Read Herrick?
  • 2. 'Jocond his Muse was': Celebration and Virtuosity in Herrick
  • 3. Conviviality Interrupted or, Herrick and Postmodernism
  • 4. 'Those Lyrick Feasts, made at the Sun, the Dog, the triple Tunne': Going Clubbing with Ben Jonson
  • 5. Herrick and the Order of the Black Riband: Literary Community in Civil War London and the Publication of Hesperides (1648)
  • 6. 'Leaves of Fame': Katherine Philips and Robert Herrick's Shared Community
  • 7. 'Thou & Ile sing to make these dull Shades merry': Herrick's Charon Dialogues
  • 8. Ile bring thee Herrick to Anacreon:' Robert Herrick's Anacreontics and the Politics of Conviviality in Hesperides
  • 9. Supping with Ghosts: Imitation and Immortality in Herrick
  • 10. 'Touch but thy Lire (my Harrie)':Henry Lawes and the Mirthful Music of Hesperides
  • 11. His Noble Numbers
  • 12. Afterword:Herrick's Community, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Uses of Historicism
  • FURTHER READING
  • INDEX

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