ABSTRACT
The title of Crashaw’s ‘Steps to the Temple’ may or may not have been his own. But he did include within its pages a substantial tribute to Herbert, the ensuing poem, first published in 1646 but presumably written before he departed for Italy, where he died three years later (1649). See also above, p. 6.
Source: Crashaw, ‘Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses’ (1646); reproduced from ‘The Poems … of Richard Crashaw’, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1957), pp. 130–1.
