Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presence in Seventeenth- Century Religious Poetry 3
5. 1. Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert’s The Temple 23
6. 2. Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw’s Religious Lyrics 66
7. 3. Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne’s Divine Poems 106
8. 4. Desiring What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton’s Early Poems and Paradise Regained 149
9. Conclusion: Reading Is Love 190
10. Notes 207
11. Bibliography 263
12. Index 279