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Suckling’s poetry is considered to present the height of libertine cynicism, enjoyable excursions into a world of carefree abandonment, reveling in wine, women, and gambling, a male world of conquest and gratifications; but, as a line in “An Answer to some Verses Made in his praise” suggests, perhaps beneath all the humor and one ...
15 sie 2024 · Compared with other collections in the century, Sir John Suckling's poems are probably in the worst condition. Herrick, Waller, Lovelace, Cowley, Milton and Jonson supervised the printing...
Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641 [a]) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage . [ 1 ]
15 sie 2008 · The poems of Sir John Suckling : with preface and notes by Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642; Stokes, Frederick Abbott, 1857-1939
Yes, into Ziriff's, sir. Ther. That Ziriff was thy brother, brave Zorannes, Preserv'd by miracle in that sad day Thy father fell, and since, thus in disguise Waiting his just revenge. Agl. You do amaze me, sir. 30. Ther. And must do more, when I tell all the story. The king, the jealous king, knew of the marriage;
Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to my L. Middlesex his House at Witten; A Barber; A Soldier; To my Lady E. C. at her Going out of England; A Pedlar of Small-wares; An Answer to Some Verses Made in his Praise; Love's Burning-glass; The Miracle [Εἰ μὲν ἦν μαθεῖν] Song ('When, dearest, I but think of thee ...
Like the other cavalier poets he scorned the sonnet and the sentimentality of love poetry, writing lyrics with short lines displaying an urbane, graceful and somewhat cynical wit. He won dramatic acclaim with his performances of Aglaura but much of his work was published only after his death.
