Southwell, Robert

<div><b>Robert Southwell, SJ, </b>&nbsp;was an English Jesuit priest and poet who lived from 1561&#8211;1595, when he was hanged at Tyburn. <b>Peter Davidson</b> is a professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen and the editor of&nbsp;<i>The Clarendon Anthology of Seventeenth Century English Poetry, </i><i>The Clarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe, </i><i> </i>and<i> Poetry and Revolution</i><i>. </i><b>Anne Sweeney</b> is the author of a publis...