Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Richard Crashaw

Born: 1612
Died: August 21, 1649 (aged 37)
Bio: Richard Crashaw was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature.
Known for:
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Selected Poems: Secular & Sacred
- The English Poems Of Richard Crashaw