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Richard Crashaw (c.1612-1649)Richard Crashaw was the son of a staunch Puritan preacher. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge from where he graduated in 1634 going on to become a fellow of Peterhouse.
After the English Civil War he became a Roman Catholic and left England for France. Introduced to the French Queen,
Henrietta Maria, by his friend Abraham Cowley, another Crashaw's principal poetic work was the Steps to the Temple, a collection of religious poems published in 1646. Attached to this was a non-religious section entitled Delights of the Muses, which contains his best-known poem Wishes to his Supposed Mistress. After his death his friend, Miles Pinkney, published a more complete volume of his works, Carmen Deo Nostro.
Four Metaphysical Poets: George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell
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