A Selection from the Works of Thomas Swan

Poetry. Edited by Martin Corless-Smith and Alan Halsey. The poems of Thomas Swan (1653-80) have not been published since the Worcester Antiquarian Society's pioneering edition of 1876. Using a recently discovered manuscript this selection corrects some earlier errors in transcription and includes previously unrecorded variants and fragments. "Then green laid lightly as linen on a violet place." - from Swan's remarks on colours, printed in this volume for the first time.