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ROBERT HERRICKáUPON JULIA&rsquo,S BREASTS: LOVE POEMSáEdited by M.K. PaceáROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) was one of the Cavalier poets (other Cavalier poets included Suckling, Carew and Lovelace). He wasáborn in London and lived much of his life in the rougháremoteness of a parish in Devonshire. He studied at Cambridgeá(St John',s College and Trinity Hall). His law studies wereádropped in 1623, and he was ordained as a deacon and priest iná1624.áThere are many poems in Robert Herrick',s work of love - about love desired, lost and mourned. Herrick is very definitely a ',Muse poet',, to use Robert Graves',s term. There are many poems about several mistresses, ',my dearest Beauties', he calls them in ',To My Lovely Mistresses', (Anthea, Perilla, Electra, Blanch, Judith, Silvia, and the most beloved of all, Julia).áThere are many poems toácertain ',muses', or ',maidens',. The sheer number (and quality) ofáRobert Herrick',s poems to Julia attests to his deep passion for áthe friendship and strength of women: ',To Julia',, ',To Roses in Julia',s Bosom',, ',To Julia, Her Dawn, or Daybreak',, ',The Parliament of Roses to Julia',, ',Upon Julia',s Recovery',, ',OnáJulia',s Fall',, ',His Sailing From Julia',,á',Her Legs',, ',Her Bed',, ',On Julia',s Picture',, ',The Bracelet to Julia',, ',To Julia in the Temple', and so on.áApart from poems addressed ',To His Book',, there are more poems in Robert Herrick',s output ',To Julia', than to anything else. Julia is ',the prime of Paradise', (',To Julia, in Her Dawn, or áDay-breake',). She is utterly adored, often erotically. There are poems which eulogize her breasts and nipples, for instance: ',Display thy breasts.../ Between whose glories, there my lips I',llálay,/ Ravisht',, he writes (in ',Upon Julia',s Breasts',), other paeans toáJulia',s breasts include ',Upon the Roses in Julia',s Bosom',, and ',Upon the Nipples of Julia',s Breast',. Her eyes, her nose, her mouth, her blush, her legs, her voice, her clothes, her perfume, her teeth &ndash, even her sweat.áRobert Herrick',s major work, Hesperides or The Works Both Humaneáand Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., was published in 1648. There are some 1130 poems in the first, secular part, Hesperides, andá272 in Noble Numbers, the religious pieces. Most of the poems in Hesperides have printed on a page of their own.áRobert Herrick',s poetry (his Hesperides) followed the plan outlined the poem ',TheáArgument of His Book',, with its lyrical evocation of the natural world. Herrick was particularly well situated,ágeographically, to write nature poetry. Like Coleridge,áWordsworth and Brontë, Herrick lived in the midst of the countryside, in the relative isolation of Dean Prior, on the edge of Dartmoor ináDevon.ááIncludes illustrations, an introduction to Robert Herrick, and