Richard Crashaw (–1649)
Author of George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets [Norton Critical Edition]
About the Author
Richard Crashaw was an English poet born in London in 1612. Crashaw was educated at Charterhouse in London and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but his religious views ended his academic career. He went into exile in Holland and Paris. After converting to Roman Catholicism in 1646, he was introduced show more to the Pope who granted him an ecclesiastical post at the shrine of Loreto. Crashaw died there August 21, 1649. In 1634 his Latin epigrams, Epigramatum Sacorum, were published. His first English work was Steps to the Temple With Other Delights of the Moon, published in 1646 and expanded in 1648. The title was a tribute to George Herbert whose sacred verse, The Temple, was written in 1633. Herbert's puritan style was very different from that of Crashaw's sensuous imagery, exclamations, and loose structure. A revision of earlier religious poems, Carmen Deo Nostro was published after Crashaw's death. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Richard Crashaw
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets [Norton Critical Edition] (1978) — Author — 241 copies, 1 review
The verse in English of Richard Crashaw;: The 1646 text of Steps to the temple and The delights of the Muses; the 1652… (1949) 14 copies
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw ... Edited by William B. Turnbull (Library of Old Authors.) (1858) 2 copies
Epigrammatum sacrorum liber 1 copy
The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw V1: For The First Time Collected And Collated With The Original And Early… (2007) 1 copy
The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems. With memoirs and critical dissertations, by the Rev.… (2010) 1 copy
Welcome all wonders 1 copy
The English Poems of Richard Crashaw. Edited, with an Introduction & Notes by Edward Hutton (1901) — Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,084 copies, 3 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 458 copies, 1 review
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- c. 1613
- Date of death
- 1649-08-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
- Country (for map)
- UK
- Places of residence
- Loreto, Italy
- Education
- University of Cambridge (Pembroke College, Peterhouse)
- Relationships
- Crashaw, William (father)
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- Works
- 33
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 405
- Popularity
- #60,014
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 28