Robert  H. Deming, Ceremony and Art: Robert Herrick’s Poetry (Mouton, 1974)

Achsah Guibbory, Ceremony and Community from Herrick to Milton: Literature, Religion, Culture (CUP, 1998)

Leah S. Marcus, The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell (Chicago Univ. Press, 1986)