HERRICK, ROBERT

(1868), university profe or and novelist; 6. Cambridge, Ma . He graduated from Harvard in 1890, then taught at the Ma achusetts Institute of Technology and afterwards at the University of Chicago, where in 1905 he was appointed profe or of English. He wrote a number of novels, beginning with The Man Who Wins, 1895; and including The Common Lot, 1904, one of the most outstanding of his productions. English poet; 6. London; d. Dean Prior, Devons hire. He was the s. of a goldsmith and studied at Cambridge, becoming a chaplain. In 1629 he became vicar of Prior Place, Devon, but in 1647 was ejected from his parish by Parliamentary troops owing to his royalist sympathies. Upon the restoration of Charles II. in 1662 he was reinstated to his old living. As a poet his viewpoint was pastoral and idyllic. He also wrote religious poems, but the main body of his work was amatory and descriptive, much of it of an exquisite lyrical quality and of perfect form. A number of his lines survive, as fresh and as melodious as when written, in present-day anthologies, among them Cherry Ripe, and Gather Ye Rosebuds. His literary mentor was Ben Johnson. His poems were collected and published under the titles of Hesperides and Noble Numbers.