Richard Crashaw was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature.
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Thomas Sutton bequeathed money to maintain a chapel, hospital, and school at the London Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery, where Crashaw studied from 1629 to 1631.
The Old Court at Pembroke College, Cambridge
The Old Court at Peterhouse, Cambridge, the oldest constituent college of the university, which Crashaw described as "a little contentfull kingdom"
Little St Mary's, Cambridge
Title page of Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646) which was published during Crashaw's exileWriters born in the 1610s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1612 to 1649 · aged 37
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22 languages
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