R J Backus

The Bloody Butcher R J Backus

This collection of 14 poems reveals the bawdy, dark, and even criminal side of 17th Century England. Included are poems of seduction (as in "The Wanton"), odes to alchohol ("A Song in Praise"), ballads about notorious murderers (as in "Murder Upon Murder"), imaginative stanzas describing the tortures of hell ("Dead Man's Song"), and more. Poems include: A Bacchanalian Song, The Ballad of the Cloak, A Ballad Upon the Popish Plot, The Bachelor's Delight, The Bloody Butcher, The Bloody Gardener's Cruelty, The Dead Man's Song, The Maidens Frolic, Murder Out at Last, Murder Upon Murder, A Song in Praise of the Leather Bottle, The Wanton, The Bachelor's Ballad, The Maid's Answer to the Bachelor's Ballad