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    Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert
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    Russell M. Hillier (Edited by), Robert W. Reeder (Edited by), Kirsten Stirling (Contributions by), Angela Balla (Contributions by), Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Contributions by), Kimberly Johnson (Contributions by), Greg Miller (Contributions by), Robert W. Reeder (Contributions by), Kate Narveson (Contributions by), Danielle A. St. Hilaire (Contributions by), Christopher T. Hodgkins (Contributions by), Helen Wilcox (Contributions by)

    9781644532263

    Paperback / softback, published 15 October 2021

    244 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg

    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 thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic endings. 

    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    
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