The Hag

Author(s): Robert Herrick

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: April Hill, Algy Pug, Claudia Salto, CaprishaPage, Diana Majlinger, David Lawrence, Ernst Pattynama, Joe Brenneman, Jason Mills, Jennifer Dorr, Jannie Meisberger, Julia Niedermaier, John Sercel, Lee Ann Howlett, John W. Michaels, Patrick Wallace, Pam Castille, Ravenotation, Savannah

Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 24 minutes

Language: English

A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late Elizabethan era. This must have seemed quite old-fashioned to an audience whose tastes were tuned to the complexities of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell. His works were rediscovered in the early nineteenth century, and have been regularly printed ever since. (Summary by Wikipedia)