"Crashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness." --T. S. Eliot
This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticism--the traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) wrote exultant, high-flying verse that remains the most sustained effort in English to render ecstasy poetically. Routinely misunderstood and at...
"Crashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness." --T. S. Eliot
This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years...
"The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw - Volume II" from Richard Crashaw. English poet, styled "the divine" and known as one of the central figures associated with the Metaphysical poets in 17th Century (1613-1649).
"The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw - Volume II" from Richard Crashaw. English poet, styled "the divine" and known as one of the central figures as...
"The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw - Volume I" from Richard Crashaw. English poet, styled "the divine" and known as one of the central figures associated with the Metaphysical poets in 17th Century (1613-1649).
"The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw - Volume I" from Richard Crashaw. English poet, styled "the divine" and known as one of the central figures ass...
