Q: Name the most important Caroline poet:
a) Robert Herrick
b) Robert Hook
c) William Godwin
d) John Dryden
Correct answer: a) Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick, Cavalier Poet
Cavalier poets are the group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between 1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England. The poetry reveals their indebtedness to both Ben Jonson and John Donne. It is an early seventeenth-century movement centred mainly on Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, and Carew. Most of these poets were admirers of Ben Jonson. Robert Herrick is one of the most important Caroline poets. When he was fourteen months old, his father died. At the age of 16, he began a ten-year apprenticeship with his uncle. He died in October 1674. The entire collection contains more than 1200 short poems. He was influenced by classical Roman poetry and wrote on pastoral themes, dealing mostly with English country life and village customs.
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