Thomas Heywood, born about 1574 and buried on 16 August 1641, was one of the great working writers of the English Renaissance: a playwright, actor, poet, translator, prose controversialist, civic pageant-maker, and indefatigable observer of London life. He has never possessed the singular cultural monumentality of William Shakespeare, nor the sharply defined authorial reputation of Ben Jonson, yet this apparent eclip…
“The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, which God and Nature do with actors fill.”
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Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Lute-Song Composers, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Longing, Sensuality
Richard Crashaw (c.1613 – 25 August 1649) stands as one of the most distinctive and polarising voices of seventeenth-century English poetry. A poet of spiritual excess, luminous devotion, and baroque extravagance, Crashaw occupies a singular position among the so-called Metaphysical poets. Where contemporaries such as Donne and Herbert often balance intellectual ingenuity with restraint, Crashaw abandons moderation a…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
