“Among the truths which we receive, none more reasonably commands our belief than those which by all men at all times have been assented to.”
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…