Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. Part 1 NEGATIVE THEOLOGY, POLITICAL THEORY, AND THE LYRIC
6. 1 • DONNE’S NEGATIVE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS 17
7. 2 • PRAYER AS POLITICAL THEORY Conscience, Sovereignty, and Natural Law in Donne and Herbert 34
8. Part 2 ENCOUNTERS Exchange and Collaboration
9. 3 • “RESPLENDENCE OF WOMEN, MEN’S MEANS TO ZEAL” Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady Danvers 71
10. 4 • CROSSINGS Sacramental Signs across the Verse of Donne and Herbert 91
11. 5 • CRUCIFYING CRAFT A Donne-Herbert Dialogue 105
12. Part 3 SIN, SALVATION, AND ASSURANCE
13. 6 • “EXTREME AUDACITY OF PENITENTIAL HUMILITY” Devotions 10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy 119
14. 7 • IMAGINING PRAYER IN DONNE’S DEVOTIONS AND HERBERT’S POEMS OF COMPLAINT 137
15. 8 • RECUPERATING THE INCAPACITIES OF THE FALLEN SELF IN DONNE AND HERBERT Possibility and Promise 157
16. Part 4 APPRAISALS
17. 9 • DONNE’S “COMEDY OF EROS” AND HERBERT’S “WORLD OF MIRTH” 177
18. 10 • “THE DOT OVER THE I” How Donne and Herbert Close Their Poems 205
19. APPENDIX Donne’s and Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor 221
20. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 225
21. INDEX 229