Robert Southwell

The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

Father Southwell should have heen submitted to the public, especiallj when of late its taste has been directed so much, and so fayourably, to the writers of the sixteenth century. And these sentiments have been induced not by a mere natural bias or respect towards the illustrious Society of which he was a member (and which I hold in the highest Teneration, honour, and esteem), but because my appreciation of the intrinsic worth of the poems themselves is shared by the few living individuals who are conversant with them (for the editions are all of exceeding rarity), and haa been anticipated by such acknowledged critics in that department of our early literature as Headly, Warton, Park, and others.
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