Talk:Richard Crashaw

In what year did Crashaw die?

Both Britannica and Catholic Encyclopedia - and most other websites I checked out - state that Crashaw died in 1649. However, the Wikipedia article gives a date in 1650 for Crashaw to have been sent to Loretto, where he died. Is there anyone who has the resources or expertise to decide which is right? Thanks! Pierroo 20:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Richard Crashaw

Crashaw spent the last days of his life in Loreto (not Loretto) the link should be to the town near Ancona with the famous Marian shrine, of which he was - very briefly - a Canon 195.188.41.139 14:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

out of date

This entry seems to have been copied from older sources. Nothing wrong with that, but the the following paragraph is out-of-date and even offensive:

"There is no religious poetry in English so full at once of gross and awkward images and imaginative touches of the most ethereal beauty. The temper of his intellect seems to have been delicate and weak, fiery and uncertain; he has a morbid, almost hysterical, passion about him, even when his ardour is most exquisitely expressed, and his adoring addresses to the saints have an effeminate falsetto that makes their ecstasy almost repulsive. The faults and beauties of his very peculiar style can be studied nowhere to more advantage than in the Hymn to Saint Teresa." 67.142.165.38 (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed Revision AUG2012

For some reason, I'm on a 17th Century poets kick. I just finished an overhaul of Silesius that is now a GA, and I am inclined to bring the metaphysicians up to the majors. In revising this article (with GA nomination in mind), this is what I hope to do (and look forward to suggestions and assistance from other article contributors)

• Expand lede to two paragraphs - the first glossing over his life (poetry, conversion to catholicism, exile during English Civil War)
• Life be broken up into three sections and expanded. Sections: (1) Early life and education, (2) Poet and fellow at Cambridge, growing tensions over his Catholicism, (3) Forced into a continental exile, work for the Church, death in Italy.
• Discussion of his work in: (1) symbols, themes and other devices in his work, (2) how he fits in as a metaphysical poet, (3) his influences, (4) who he influenced (including his impact on Eliot).
• Already provided a list of published works (including posthumous).
• Looking for 20-25 good references to use. (I've looked through 10 so far)

Again, suggestions, discussions, critiques, assistance always welcome. --ColonelHenry (talk) 01:55, 8 August 2012 (UTC)