Part I : Sacred and profane in Renaissance contexts. Lute and harp in Wyatt's poetry / Elizabeth Heale -- Surrey's Psalms in the Tower / W.A. Sessions -- Contrafacta and the Gude and godlie ballatis / A.A. MacDonald -- The sixteenth-century Scottish love lyric / Theo van Heijnsbergen -- To weave a new webbe in their owne loome : Robert Southwell and Counter-Reformation poetics / John R. Roberts and Lorraine Roberts -- Poison and honey : the politics of the sacred and the profane in Spenser's Fowre hymnes (1596) / Jonathan Sawday -- Re-historicising Macbeth / Arthur F. Kinney -- The Gospel according to Aemilia : women and the sacred in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum / Achsah Guibbory -- Part II : Nor ever chast ... : John Donne, amorous and divine. Let me love : reading the sacred currant of Donne's profane lyrics / M. Thomas Hester -- Donne's jealous God and the concept of sacred parody / Paul J.C.M. Franssen -- The mimetic poetry of Jack and John Donne : a field theory for the amorous and the divine / Paul R. Sellin -- Some sacred and profane con-texts of John Donne's Batter my hart / Gary A. Stringer -- John Donne as medievalist / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Donne's reinvention of the fathers : sacred truths suitably expressed / P.G. Stanwood -- John Donne and the past / Jeremy Maule. Part II : Nor ever chast ... : John Donne, amorous and divine. Let me love : reading the sacred currant of Donne's profane lyrics / M. Thomas Hester -- Donne's jealous God and the concept of sacred parody / Paul J.C.M. Franssen -- The mimetic poetry of Jack and John Donne : a field theory for the amorous and the divine / Paul R. Sellin -- Some sacred and profane con-texts of John Donne's Batter my hart / Gary A. Stringer -- John Donne as medievalist / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Donne's reinvention of the fathers : sacred truths suitably expressed / P.G. Stanwood -- John Donne and the past / Jeremy Maule. Part III : Religion, rhetoric and revolution in the seventeenth century. Helicon and hills of sand : pagan gods in early modern Dutch and European poetry / Marijke Spies -- Love thou art absolute : Richard Crashaw and the discourse of human and divine love / Claire Warwick -- til we mix wounds : liturgical paradox and Crashaw's classicism / Jeffrey Johnson -- Milton's orphic harmony : Ovidian imitation and Christian revelation in The Nativity ode and The Passion / Mark Berge -- Varnish on a harlot's cheek : John Milton and the hierarchies of secular and divine literature / Thomas N. Corns -- Epic ends and novel beginnings in Paradise lost / Andrew Monnickendam -- The politics of women's prophecy in the English Revolution / Elaine Hobby -- Lewd, profane swaggerers and charismatic preachers : John Bunyan and George Fox / Elspeth Graham -- The Restoration poetry of John Norris / Frans Korsten -- Rochester, Behn and the martyrdom of lust / Edward Burns.
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