Travels Through Stuart Britain Author:John Taylor, John Chandler John Taylor (1580-1653) usually referred to as "the water poet," was a Glouchester-born, self-educated Thames wherryman turned pamphleteer and versifier who published some 200 works in his lifetime. He was an ebullient and entertaining character, whose career spanned service in the Elizabethan navy, theater life in Shakespeare's London, Royalist... more » Oxford in the civil war, and in old age running a Covent Garden pub during the Commonwealth.« less