SOURCE: Review of The Works of Sir John Suckling, in Modern Language Review, Vol. VI, No. 1, January, 1911, pp. 123-24.

In the following review, Moorman sees Suckling as John Donne's “direct successor,” and comments on Suckling's poetic influence.

In this volume [The Works of Sir John Suckling] Mr Hamilton Thompson has given us a careful reprint, based on the early editions of the Fragmenta Aurea, of all Suckling's writings in verse and prose. In a short Introduction—which might with advantage have been longer—he relates the chief facts in the author's life, and forms a sane and liberal estimate of the man's character. He also makes some attempt to indicate his relation to the poets of the preceding generation and to those contemporary with himself. He rightly insists on his detachment from Ben Jonson, adding that ‘his inclinations led him rather in the direction which had been pointed...