Originally published in two volumes in 1908 and 1909, the present work remains the standard edition of the poetical works of Giles Fletcher and his brother Phineas Fletcher. The first volume contains all the extant poems of Giles Fletcher and the undisputed poetical works of Phineas published before 1633. The second volume includes the poems, original or translated, of Phineas Fletcher which appeared in or after that year.
The Purple Island offers a fresh critical and editorial approach to Phineas Fletcher’s allegorical epic, illuminating an often neglected seventeenth-century poem for a new readership.
