Acknowledgments
Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder, Introduction
Part I: Negative Theology, Political Theory, and the Lyric
Chapter 1: Kirsten Stirling, “Donne’s Negative Theology of the Cross”
Chapter 2: Angela Balla, “Prayer as Political Theory: Conscience, Sovereignty, and
Natural Law in Donne and Herbert”
Part II: Encounters: Exchange and Collaboration
Chapter 3: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, “‘Resplendence of women, men’s means to zeal’: Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady
Danvers”
Chapter 4: Kimberly Johnson, “Crossings: Sacramental Signs Across the Verse of
Donne and Herbert”
Chapter 5: Greg Miller, “Crucifying Craft: A Donne-Herbert Dialogue”
Part III: Sin, Salvation, and Assurance
Chapter 6: Robert W. Reeder, “‘Extreme Audacity of Penitential Humility’: Devotions
10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy”
Chapter 7: Kate Narveson, “Imagining Prayer in Donne’s Devotions and Herbert’s
Poems of Complaint”
Chapter 8: Danielle A. St. Hilaire, “Recuperating the Incapacities of the Fallen Self in
Donne and Herbert: Possibility and Promise”
Part IV: Appraisals
Chapter 9: Christopher Hodgkins, “Donne’s ‘Comedy of Eros’ and Herbert’s ‘World
of Mirth’”
Chapter 10: Helen Wilcox, “‘The dot over the i’: How Donne and Herbert Close
Their Poems”
Appendix: Catherine R. Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller, trans., “Donne and
Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor”
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