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This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern poet-thinkers. The contributors illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggestion new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder, Introduction
Part I: Negative Theology, Political Theory, and the Lyric
Chapter 1: Kirsten Stirling, “Donne’s Negative Theology of the Cross”
Chapter 2: Angela Balla, “Prayer as Political Theory: Conscience, Sovereignty, and
Natural Law in Donne and Herbert”
Part II: Encounters: Exchange and Collaboration
Chapter 3: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, “‘Resplendence of women, men’s means to zeal’: Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady
Danvers”
Chapter 4: Kimberly Johnson, “Crossings: Sacramental Signs Across the Verse of
Donne and Herbert”
Chapter 5: Greg Miller, “Crucifying Craft: A Donne-Herbert Dialogue”
Part III: Sin, Salvation, and Assurance
Chapter 6: Robert W. Reeder, “‘Extreme Audacity of Penitential Humility’: Devotions
10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy”
Chapter 7: Kate Narveson, “Imagining Prayer in Donne’s Devotions and Herbert’s
Poems of Complaint”
Chapter 8: Danielle A. St. Hilaire, “Recuperating the Incapacities of the Fallen Self in
Donne and Herbert: Possibility and Promise”
Part IV: Appraisals
Chapter 9: Christopher Hodgkins, “Donne’s ‘Comedy of Eros’ and Herbert’s ‘World
of Mirth’”
Chapter 10: Helen Wilcox, “‘The dot over the i’: How Donne and Herbert Close
Their Poems”
Appendix: Catherine R. Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller, trans., “Donne and
Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor”
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
RUSSELL M. HILLIER is a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He is the author of Milton’s Messiah and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Souls at Hazard. He is currently working on projects on Shakespearean drama and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
ROBERT W. REEDER is an associate professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He has published articles on Donne and Shakespeare in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, The John Donne Journal, Philological Quarterly, Renascence, and Early Modern Literary Studies.
Summary
Brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association.
