Lucasta

A single candle flickers in a shadowed chamber, illuminating verses that pulse with longing and defiance. Here, the passions and paradoxes of seventeenth-century England are distilled into lyric poetry that shimmers with both tenderness and valour. This restored collection, once out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, draws readers into a world where love and honour intertwine, and every line is steeped in the spirit of the English Renaissance. The poems, at once int...