A Chalk Streams Summons: Hester Pulter’s Amniotic Undersongs
In his 1627 Sylva Sylvarum, Sir Francis Bacon summarised several experiments on the properties of sound, concluding that ‘communication passeth far better throrow [sic] Water than Air’.[1] It is perhaps with this liquid clarity in mind that Hester Pulter (1605?-1678) created the boisterous bodies of water running through her royalist poetry. Her rivers and streams …
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