Robert Southwell

Robert Southwell, SJ, was an English Jesuit priest and poet who lived from 1561–1595, when he was hanged at Tyburn. Peter Davidson is a professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen and the editor of The Clarendon Anthology of Seventeenth Century English Poetry, The Clarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe, and Poetry and Revolution. Anne Sweeney is the author of a published monograph on Southwell, Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape.