Sometimes authors were so famous that we know almost too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Herrick, author of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” to write a biography long enough to satisfy anyone, or at least long enough to fill two …showed first 75 words of 602 total…

…showed last 75 words of 602 total…he went to work as an apprentice to his uncle and never looked back. Herrick received both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree of the Arts, was ordained a minister and went on a military expedition with the Duke of Buckingham. In addition to all of these accomplishments, inspired and influenced by Ben Johnson as well as other English writers, Robert Herrick still found time to be an important and heralded English author.