A collection of ten original critical and historical essays on the life and art of Crashaw (1612/13-1649), one of the most neglected, misunderstood and unapprec

This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and

English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more full

Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church. The work of John Don