| Front | Burning Babe |
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| Back | the Robert Southwell's best known poem was printed in 1602. in it poet feels an unexpected warmth in winter and looks up to see a burning babe who explains to him the significance of his burning. the term of the explanation spiritualize Petrarchan commonplaces of burning heart and the sufferings of love with details of Christ's passion at the end of the poem the poet realizes that it is Christmas Day this lyric was much admired by Ben Jonson who told William Drummond of Hawthorne that if he, Jonson, had written it, he would have been contend to destroy many of his own. |
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