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Article: Robert Herrick's fathers.
- Article from:
- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods.
Freud, The Future of an Illusion(1)
In the Hesperides of that most eminent of the "Sons of Ben," Robert Herrick, poems that treat strong father-figures loom larger than has generally been recognized. The paternal imagos in these diverse works range from such "literary fathers" as Ben Jonson, to such "social fathers" as Herrick's patron, Endymion Porter, to such "political fathers" as Charles I, to God the Father himself. Taken together, these poems can be seen to constitute an unconscious search for the father--and a psychical struggle to come to terms with him--that lend ...
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