The English Poems of Richard CrashawCrashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness. T. S. Eliot This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticismthe traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 16131649) wrote exultant, high