Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-396) and index.

Introduction / Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson -- 1. Gender and Judaism in Meditations on the Passion: Middleton, Southwell, Lanyer, and Fletcher / Kari Boyd McBride -- 2. "To Help Souls": Recovering the Purpose of Southwell's Poetry and Prose / Scott R. Pilarz -- 3. Alabaster's "Ensigns" Sonnets: Calm Before the Storm / George Klawitter -- 4. Dreaming Authorship: Aemilia Lanyer and the Countess of Pembroke / Debra Rienstra -- 5. Aemilia Lanyer's "Description of Cooke-ham" as Devotional Lyric / Patrick Cook -- 6. Drummond's Artistry in the Flowers of Sion / Robert C. Evans -- 7. William Austin, Poet of Anglianism / Kate Narveson -- 8. Patrick Cary's Education of the Senses / Sean McDowell -- 9. Penseroso Triptych: "Eliza," An Collins, Elizabeth Major / Patricia Demers -- 10. Eyes on the Prize: The Search for Personal Space and Stability through Religious Devotion in Eliza's Babes / Michael Rex -- 11. An Collins: the Tradition of the Religious Lyric, Modified or Corrected? / Ann Hurley -- 12. "It is a lovely bonne I make to thee": Mary Carey's "abortive Birth" as Recuperative Religious Lyric / Donna Long -- 13. Felicity Incarnate: Rediscovering Thomas Traherne / Barry Spurr -- 14. Revisiting Joseph Beaumont / Paul G. Stanwood -- 15. Ravishing Embraces and Sober Minds: The Poetry of Joseph Beaumont / Paul Parrish -- 16. John Roberts, Bibliographer / Claude Summers.