Addressing both Robert Southwell's poetry and private writings including letters and diary material, this title shows to what extent Southwell engaged in direct artistic debate with Spenser Sidney and Shakespeare.

An estimate of the life and writings of the greatest poet of sacred verse in the golden age of lyric expression.

For the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss. and englarged with Hitherto unprinted and inedited poems from mss. at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and original illustrations and facsimiles in the Quarto form. Edited, with memorial-introduction and notes by the Rev. A.B. Grosart.

Robert Southwell's appeal to Queen Elizabeth I against her proclamation of October 1591 against the Roman Catholics