“A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.”
About Sir John Suckling
10 February 1609–1642
Sir John Suckling stands as one of the most vivid and enigmatic figures of the seventeenth century, a man whose life was lived with the same flamboyant intensity that characterized his verse. Born in 1609 and dying under mysterious circumstances in 1642, Suckling's brief thirty-three years encapsulate the glittering…