Auteur: Sir Christopher Ricks

‘L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? – A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick – And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard’Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satir …

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love …