A poet and a publican and one of the few literary characters of his age whom we would have liked to share a glass.

Travels through Stuart Britain : the adventures of John Taylor, the water poet  John Taylor : edited and selected by John Chandler  Thrupp, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1999  0750919442 Poets, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Biography,  Taylor, John, 1580-1653 Travel Great Britain Hardcover. xii, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xii) and indexes. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. TXT GNU VG/VG GUARANTEED TO BE SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HOURS OF OUR RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER

John Taylor (1580-1653), usually referred to as "the water poet, " was a Gloucester-born, self-educated Thames wherryman turned pamphleteer and versifier who published some 200 works in his lifetime. He was an ebullient and entertaining character, whose career spanned service in the Elizabethan navy, theater life in Shakespeare's London, Royalist Oxford in the civil war, and in old age running a Covent Garden pub during the Commonwealth.

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