BIOGRAPHY

Spink, Ian. Cavalier Songwriter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 172 p.

Comprehensive account of Lawes's life, focusing on his work as a musician.

CRITICISM

Evans, Willa McClung. “Lawes' and Lovelace's Loose Saraband.” PMLA 54, no. 3 (September 1939): 764-67.

Comments on Lawes's musical setting for a poem by Richard Lovelace.

———. Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1941, 250 p.

Full-length survey of Lawes's works from a literary perspective.

Nixon, Scott. “Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron.” Huntington Library Quarterly 62, nos. 3-4 (1999): 232-72.

Examines a copy of the 1655 Select Psalmes of a New Translation and detects Lawes's hand in the collaborative work.

Stevens, David Harrison. “The Bridgewater Manuscript of ‘Comus.’” Modern Philology 24, no. 3 (February 1927): 315-20.

Discusses the value of the Bridgewater manuscript of Comus as a work of collaboration between Milton and Lawes.

Additional coverage of Lawes's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 126 and Literature Resource Center.