‡ To Master Brooke R. WI. 374 ‡ Epitaph on Dr. Brooke R. WI. 376 ‡ Epitaph on William Herries G. 378 ‡ On the same R. WI. 383 ‡ On the Portrait of Bishop Andrewes CR. 384 Glossarial Index 385 ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. II. 4TO. Photograph of the Cartoon for the memorial-window to Crashaw in Peterhouse, by F. Madox-Brown, Esq. R.A. _facing title-page._ The captive Song-bird, by Mrs. Blackburn _vignette to Essay._ Vignette illustrations, by W.J. Linton, Esq. _pp._ 96, 242, 251, 295, 329, 350, 373, 377. ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND POETRY OF CRASHAW.[2] In our Memorial-Introduction (vol. i. p. xxvi.) we make two promises, which fall now to be redeemed: (_a_) A STUDY OF THE LIFE AND POETRY OF RICHARD CRASHAW. (_b_) A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM CRASHAW, B.D., HIS FATHER. The latter is in so many ways elucidative and illuminative of the former, outwardly and inwardly, that I deem it well to give it first. I. MEMOIR OF WILLIAM CRASHAW, B.D. The late laborious and accurate Joseph Hunter, in his MS. collections yclept Chorus Vatum, which by rare good fortune are preserved in the British Museum (Addl. MSS. 24.487, pp. 34-39), thus begins, _s.n._ 'I am here introducing a name which may be said to be hitherto unknown in the regions of Poetry, and which has been unaccountably passed over by biographical writers of every class; yet one who has just claims on our attention of his own as well as in being the father of Richard Crashaw, whose merits are admitted;' and he continues with a pleasant egotism that one can readily pardon, 'and he has particular claims upon me, as having been a native of the part of the kingdom from which I spring, and bearing a name which is that of a numerous family from whom I descend.' We shall find onward, that the elder Crashaw had a unique gift of Poetry; but independent of that, a somewhat prolonged acquaintance with his numerous books enables us emphatically to ratify the 'claims' of '_his own_' otherwise--though in strong, even fierce, antagonism as Divine and Writer to his gentle-natured son's after-opinions.