It will be long, in spite of all the tireless searches of many inspired scholars, before the resources of English poetry of the seventeenth century are fully revealed. Voluminous poems and extensive lyrical miscellanies in manuscript still come to light, or remain perhaps a few years more in their nooks in great libraries. Works that attained publication in an age of poorish book production—for so the seventeenth century was in England—have many of them become extremely rare, and unless somebody with the energy of George Saints- bury catches sight of them and selects them for such a new chance of appreciation as his Caroline Poets gave, their existence is scarcely felt.