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Richard Crashaw

1612 - 1649

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Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature. Crashaw was the son of a famous Anglican divine with Puritan beliefs, William Crashaw, who earned a reputation as a hard-hitting pamphleteer and polemicist against Catholicism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Crashaw has received more than 168,036 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Richard Crashaw is the 1,242nd most popular philosopher (down from 1,154th in 2019), the 5,523rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,273rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Crashaw ranks 1,242 out of 1,267. Before him are Chinmayananda Saraswati, Stephen Walt, James Dunn, William Ames, David Benatar, and Peter Kreeft. After him are Rosemary Radford Ruether, Nel Noddings, Leonard Peikoff, Paul Churchland, Alex Callinicos, and Colin McGinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Richard Crashaw ranks 27. Before him are August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Pier Francesco Mola, Anne Bradstreet, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.  Among people deceased in 1649, Richard Crashaw ranks 19. Before him are Vincenzo Carafa, Jean de Brébeuf, Susanna Hall, Vittoria Farnese, John Winthrop, and Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Crashaw ranks 5,523 out of 8,785. Before him are John Wark (1957), P. H. Newby (1918), Peter Hill-Wood (1936), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), Hannah Murray (1989), and Cuth Harrison (1906). After him are Peter Mandelson (1953), Iwan Rheon (1985), Paul Dummett (1991), Michael Rosen (1946), Bill McGarry (1927), and David Harewood (1965).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Richard Crashaw ranks 97. Before him are C. H. Dodd (1884), Mary Midgley (1919), Nick Land (1962), Peter Geach (1916), James Dunn (1939), and William Ames (1576). After him are Colin McGinn (1950), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), and N. T. Wright (1948).

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