1st Edition

English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660–1700

    1168 Pages
    by Routledge

    The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously 'witty' acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell's death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot's 'A sea of the seed's sufferings'.

    Biography

    George Southcombe