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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and notes on texts; Introduction: Of Sighs and Tears; CHAPTER 1 The poetry of tears and the ghost of Robert Southwell in Shakespeare's Richard II and Milton's Paradise Lost; CHAPTER 2 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper"; CHAPTER 3 The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Andrew Marvell's "Eyes and Tears"; CHAPTER 4 Sad delight: Theology and Marian iconography in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
CHAPTER 5 Petrarchism and repentance in John Donne's Holy SonnetsCHAPTER 6 John Donne and the poetics of belatedness: Typology, trauma, and testimony in An Anatomy of the World; Conclusion; Index
