Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and notes on texts
- Introduction: Of Sighs and Tears
- Chapter 1 The poetry of tears and the ghost of Robert Southwell in Shakespeare's Richard II and Milton's Paradise Lost
- Chapter 2 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Richard Crashaw's “The Weeper”
- Chapter 3 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Andrew Marvell's “Eyes and Tears”
- Chapter 4 Sad delight: Theology and Marian iconography in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
- Chapter 5 Petrarchism and repentance in John Donne's Holy Sonnets
- Chapter 6 John Donne and the poetics of belatedness: Typology, trauma, and testimony in An Anatomy of the World
- Conclusion
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and notes on texts
- Introduction: Of Sighs and Tears
- Chapter 1 The poetry of tears and the ghost of Robert Southwell in Shakespeare's Richard II and Milton's Paradise Lost
- Chapter 2 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Richard Crashaw's “The Weeper”
- Chapter 3 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Andrew Marvell's “Eyes and Tears”
- Chapter 4 Sad delight: Theology and Marian iconography in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
- Chapter 5 Petrarchism and repentance in John Donne's Holy Sonnets
- Chapter 6 John Donne and the poetics of belatedness: Typology, trauma, and testimony in An Anatomy of the World
- Conclusion
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008