Ceremony and Art: Robert Herrick's Poetry

Aeneid altar Anglican artistic attitude Baroque Ben Jonson bride C. H. Herford Candlemass carpe diem Christ Christmas classical and Christian Corinna Corinna's Going couplet critic cultural Dean Prior death death-rite devotion Dirge edition elements English epigrams eternal F. W. Moorman Feast fire flaminica flowers flux function Genius gods Herbert's Herrick's poem Herrick's poetry Hesperides historical awareness Holy Hymenaei identification imaginative Incarnation incense Jonson Julia Lares liturgical live London lord Marvell's May-Pole meditative metaphor mirth Nature and Art Noble Numbers offering Oxford pagan paradoxical pastoral performed perfume Perilla play playful poet poet's poetic contexts poetic cosmos priest principle proper ceremony provides Puritan reality religion religious Renaissance rites ritual Robert Herrick Roman sacrifice Rose Rosinus rural festivals Saints sanctified sense seventeenth-century significance spirit stanza Starkman statement suggests Swardson sweet symbolic tension thee thou tomb tradition transcend Trentall verses Virgins vision wilde civility wine