An important collection of all the poems - seventy in total, none previously published - of Thomas St Nicholas (1602-1668), known as a puritan lawyer, public figure and contemporary of Milton, and now revealed as a significant, fluent yet reflective poet. His verse illuminates the events and mentalities of the crucial middle decades of the seventeenth century, and is a notable addition to the corpus of English poetry of the period. Fully edited and annotated with an Introduction by Neville Davies, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century literature.