«The Publisher has shown largesse in matters of arrangement and presentation: the text of Hesperides are beautifully reproduced on pages uncluttered with footnotes, and even the textual collations appear in large enough type, and with sufficient use of interlinear spacing, to spare the no longer youth eyes of those readers most likely to study them closely ... Cane and Connolly's Herrick is a superb achievement.»

Paul Davis, The Times Literary Supplement

«Cain and Connolly's edition is remarkable ... [it] is bound to become the best guide to Herrick's verse. It deserves also to be regarded as one of the best sources of information about earlier 17th-century poetry.»

Colin Burrow, London Review of Books

«This major new edition of the poetry of Robert Herrick is a triumph ... the editors have produced a handsome publication befitting the increasingly vibrant and detailed scholarship surrounding the work of one of the masters of the English lyric poem ... Cain and Connolly's new edition accords with its subject perfectly. While the two volumes are weighty, their immense scholarship is lightly worn.»

Patrick J Murray, The Review of English Studies

«The Cain and Connolly Complete Poetry is a fine thing, full of interest and unostentatious excellence, humane and generous in its sympathies while at the same time being ambitious and exacting in its scholarship. Herrick has been lucky in his editors.»

Tom Lockwood, The Seventeenth Century

«The edition provides an easily usable and citable, and most importantly accurate, text of the poems»

Niall Allsopp, Notes and Queries

«this new edition of Herricks Works is a monumental enterprise, brilliantly carried off.»

Graham Parry, Spenser Review