Table of Contents

Introduction - David Colclough
Donne and the words of the law - Jeremy Maule
Mr Secretary Donne: the years with Sir Thomas Egerton - Louis A Knafla
John Donne the controversialist: the poet as political thinker - Johann P Sommerville
The profession of friendship in Donne's amatory verse letters - David Cunnington
Donne and Sir Edward Hoby: Evidence for an unrecorded collaboration - Alison Shell
Labels, controversy, and the language of inclusion in Donne's Sermons - Jeanne Shami
Donne as a conventional Paul's Cross preacher - Mary Morrissey
Donne as preacher at Court: precarious 'Inthronization' - Peter McCullough
Reverent Donne: The Double Quickening of Lincoln's Inn Chapel - James Cannon
Essaying the Body: Donne, affliction, and medicine - Stephen Pender
Izaak Walton and the 'Re-inanimation' of Dr Donne - Jessica Martin

About the Author

DAVID COLCLOUGH is a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London.

Reviews

This is an intriguing collection of essays, lucidly introduced by
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