The outward facts of our 'sweet Singer's' story are given with
comparative fulness in our Memorial-Introduction (vol. i. pp.
xxvii.-xxxviii.). In the present brief Essay we wish to look into some
of these, so as to arrive at a true estimate of them and of the Poetry,
now fully (and for the first time) collected.
I think I shall be able to say what has struck myself as worth saying
about Crashaw, under these three things:
I. His change from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, using the terms
as historic words, not polemically.