History and Contexts
Metaphysical Poetry
Prose
Francis Bacon
Sir Thomas Browne
Robert Burton
Richard Crashaw
John Donne
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Ben Jonson
Aemelia Lanyer
Andrew Marvell
Rachel Speght
Thomas Traherne
Henry Vaughan
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Fish, Stanley, ed. Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Hamilton, K. G. The Two Harmonies: Poetry and Prose in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
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Princeton University Press, 1998.
Bennett, Joan. Sir Thomas Browne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.
Nathanson, Leonard. The Strategy of Truth: A Study of Sir Thomas Browne. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
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Post, Jonathan F. S. Sir Thomas Browne. Boston: Twayne, 1987.
Wise, James N. Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici
and Two Seventeenth-Century Critics. Columbia: University of Missouri
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Babb, Lawrence. Sanity in Bedlam: A Study of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1959.
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Healy, Thomas F. Richard Crashaw. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986.
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Parrish, Paul A. Richard Crashaw. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Williams, George Walton. Image and Symbol in the
Sacred Poetry of Richard Crashaw. Columbia: University of South Carolina
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Bald, R. C. John Donne: A Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
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Corthell, Ronald. Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.
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Marotti, Arthur F. John Donne, Coterie Poet. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1986.
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Sherwood, Terry G. Fulfilling the Circle: A Study of John Donne's Thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
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Eagle and the Dove: Reassessing John Donne. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1986.
Bloch, Chana. Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Clarke, Elizabeth. Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: Divinitie, and Poesie, Met. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.
Fish, Stanley. The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978.
Harman, Barbara Leah. Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Schoenfeldt, Michael C. Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Sherwood, Terry G. Herbert's Prayerful Art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Stewart, Stanley. George Herbert. Boston: Twayne, 1986.
Strier, Richard. Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Summers, Joseph H. George Herbert: His Religion and Art. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1981.
Tuve, Rosemond. A Reading of George Herbert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.
Vendler, Helen. The Poetry of George Herbert.
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Budd, Louis J. Robert Herrick. New York: Twayne, 1971.
Deming, Robert H. Ceremony and Art: Robert Herrick's Poetry. The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Scott, George Walton. Robert Herrick, 1591-1674.
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Gardiner, Judith Kegan. Craftsmanship in Context : The Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
McCanles, Michael. Jonsonian Discriminations: The Humanist Poet and the Praise of True Nobility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
McEuen, Kathryn Anderson. Classical Influence
Upon the Tribe of Ben: A Study of
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Calhoun, Thomas O. Henry Vaughan: The Achievement of Silex Scintillans. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1981.
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John Milton (1992-2002)
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