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Excerpt from Robert Southwell, Selected Poems: Henry Constable, Pastorals and Sonnets, William Drummond, Songs, Sonnets, Etc
Robert southwell (1561 -1 59 5 who is best known, by those who know him at all, as the writer of that beautifully fanciful devout lyric, The Burning Babe, was the son of Richard Southwell of Horsham St. Faith's in Norfolk, and it is interesting to recall that his maternal ancestry gave him descent from that Sussex family from which there also descended in Percy Bysshe Shelley a later poet of a very different stamp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
