Discovered" by the poet Henry Vaughan (Olor Iscanus)
Used "Orinda" as a pen-name
Wrote poetry principally to Mary Aubrey, her "Rosania“
After Mary's marriage Katharine's chief poetic "correspondent" became Anne Owen, or "Lucasia"
Poems by the Incomparable Mrs. K.P. (1664), which was withdrawn a few days after publication
Cotterell's "authorized" edition of the Poems appeared in
- Born on 9th December 1608.
- His family was wealthy.
- During the tour of the Continent
and upon his return to England, John was planning out poetic epics and tragedies
- He had a pretty strange schedule.
He woke at four every morning and
listened to his assistant reading the Bible to him, in the original Hebrew.
- Died on 8 November 1674.
A college friend of John Milton fro
a childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likab
apoem which represents an exact intellectual system; Dante has a "philosophy," therefore every poet as great as Dante has a philosophy too. Dante had behind him the system of St. Thomas, to which his poem corresponds point to point. Therefore, Shakespeare and behind him Seneca, or Montaigne, or Machiavelli; and if his work does not correspond point to point with any or a composition of these,
a childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likab