Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1650)

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Richard was the only son of William Crashaw, a puritan preacher in London who had officiated at the burning of Mary, Queen of Scots. In defiance of his father's views on religion, Crashaw went to a High Church college at Cambridge, Pembroke. He later became a fellow of Peterhouse College but was forced to resign because of his Roman Catholic leanings. Victory for Oliver Cromwell's Puritans in the Civil War made England a dangerous place for Catholic sympathisers like Crashaw, and in 1644 he .. Continue..

Some of Richard Crashaw Poems

An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife

To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus

Prayer

Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves

The Flaming Heart

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	Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.

- Richard Crashaw

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