Topics:

1. —Compare the views of Alan Fischler, in the article, "Herrick's Holy Hedonism," with those of of Richard E. Hughes, in the article, "Herrick's 'Hock Cart': Companion Piece to 'Corinna's Going A-Maying'."
2. —Compare Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" with Herrick's "Hock Cart" and "Corinna's Going A-Maying" in regard to the theme of the interaction between the human and the natural.
3. —Compare John Donne's "The Indifferent" with Herrick's "Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram" as satires on Petrarchism.

Raising the Maypole from Chambers' Book of Days