Early Modern Whale

Two ‘Horatian Odes’ after Marvell, using his famous, but surprisingly little used metre. Both poems are elegiac, about General Sherman after...

The 17th century physician and failed wit Edmund Gayton, in his The art of longevity, or, A ...

There’s a special pleasure to be had from a truly bad poet, and I have therefore been enjoying looking at the verse of Alexander Craig (...

I am gearing up to take a party of students off to ‘Renaissance Faces’ http://www...

I’ve been looking at verse materials published in commemoration of Sir Philip Sidne...

I always welcome (I suppose) all Hollywood revisits to the 16th century, in the faint hope that things Elizabethan might suddenly seem modis...

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and fe...

I came across a Cowley poem, thought it witty - what else would Cowley be? It is ‘The Chronicle: A Ballad’, and the conceit is that he ...