Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

John Taylor, aka 'Water Poet'

British Pamphleteer and Journalist called "The Water-Poet"

"Lust... is a short pleasure, bought with long pains, a honeyed poison, a gulf of shame... the body's bane and the soul's perdition."

"The truth shows best being naked."

"Art hath no enemy but ignorance."