Acknowledgments

Introduction

Daniel W. Doerksen

Christopher Hodgkins

Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Psalter of Love

Carol V. Kaske

Guiding the Heavenly Causes: Faithfulness, Fate, and Prophecy in The Faerie Queene

Lorena Henry

Lanyer and Southwell: A Protestant Woman's Re-Vision of St. Peter

Susanne Woods

Luther, Cranmer, Service, and Shakespeare

David Evett

Publishing the Sole-talk of the Soule: Genre in Early Stuart Piety

Kate Narveson

``the man which have affliction seene'': Donne, Jeremiah, and the Fashioning of Lamentation

Raymond-Jean Frontain

Discerning God's Voice, God's Hand: Scripturalist Moderation in Donne's Devotions

Daniel W. Doerksen

Squint-eyed, Left-handed, Half-deaf: Imperfect Senses and John Donne's Interpretive Middle Way

Jeanne Shami

Sacramentalizing the Word: Donne's 1626 Christmas Sermon

Robert Whalen

Locating the Word: The Textual Church and George Herbert's Temple

Paul Dyck

``A Prophetique Dreame of the Churche'': William Baspoole's Laudian Reception of the Medieval Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode

Kathryn Walls

Milton and the Bishops: Ecclesiastical Controversy and the Early Poems

John N. King

Plays Out of Season: Puritanism, Antitheatricalism, and the Closing of the Theaters

Christopher Hodgkins

Creative Adoption in Eliza's Babes (1652): Puritan Refigurations of Sibbes, Herrick, and Herbert

L. E. Semler

Contributors

Index