Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made Flesh 1
4. Chapter 1. ‘‘The Bodie and the Letters Both’’: Textual Immanence in The Temple 34
5. Chapter 2. Edward Taylor’s ‘‘Menstruous Cloth’’: Structure as Seal in the Preparatory Meditations 63
6. Chapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John Donne 89
7. Chapter 4. Richard Crashaw’s Indigestible Poetics 119
8. Chapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental World 148
9. Notes 167
10. Bibliography 203
11. Index 221
12. Acknowledgments 235