ABSTRACT
Barksdale was a versifier possessed of a minimal talent. The following poetic tribute juxtaposes ‘The Temple’ and Crashaw’s ‘Steps to the Temple’, even though Barksdale was stylistically influenced by neither. See also above, p. 7.
Source: Barksdale, ‘Nympha Libethris or the Cotswold Muse’ (1651), pp. 93–4.
