Thomas Stanley, translator and historian of philosophy, was also a delicate lyric poet in the Cavalier manner. Louise Imogen Guiney’s 1907 edition gathers all his original lyrics as printed in 1647, 1651 and in John Gamble’s Ayres and Dialogues of 1657, addressed to Celinda and other mistresses, with an introduction and notes.
A careful edition of a fine minor poet of the seventeenth century. Download the free EPUB.