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Kiss Fancies in Robert Herrick by William Kerrigan In a tradition stretching from Edmund Gosse to Gordon Braden, critics have intimated that something major and male is absent from Herrick's erotic verse. Although he believed that "Julia" was an actual mistress, and observed that Herrick wrote "so much that an English gentleman, not to say clergyman, had better left unsaid," Gosse also noted the "total want of passion in Herrick's language about women."1 F.W. Moorman, writing around the electric word "passion," complained of a "lack of the genuine fire of love."2 Something is obviously missing in these descriptions of what is missing. It was left to Braden to elevate this tradition to the standards of twentieth-century candor: "The emphasis on foreplay and nongenital, especially oral, gratifications, the fixation on affects (smells, textures) and details (Julia's leg), and the general voyeuristic preference of perception to action ... are all intelligible as a wide diffusion oferotic e
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Kiss Fancies in Robert Herrick by William Kerrigan In a tradition stretching from Edmund Gosse to Gordon Braden, critics have intimated that something major and male is absent from Herrick's erotic verse. Although he believed that "Julia" was an actual mistress, and observed that Herrick wrote "so much that an English gentleman, not to say clergyman, had better left unsaid," Gosse also noted the "total want of passion in Herrick's language about women."1 F.W. Moorman, writing around the electric word "passion," complained of a "lack of the genuine fire of love."2 Something is obviously missing in these descriptions of what is missing. It was left to Braden to elevate this tradition to the standards of twentieth-century candor: "The emphasis on foreplay and nongenital, especially oral, gratifications, the fixation on affects (smells, textures) and details (Julia's leg), and the general voyeuristic preference of perception to action ... are all intelligible as a wide diffusion oferotic e
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