Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index
Sacrament, Time, and Space in the Tudor and Stuart English Nativity Lyric -- The Christ Child on Fire: Southwell's Mighty Babe -- "Kisse Him, and with Him into Egypt Goe": John Donne and the Christ Child of "Nativitie" -- "My Saviour's Face": George Herbert's "Starre" and the Vanishing Christ Child -- "Wisest Fate Says No": Milton's Nativity Ode -- "We Kis't the Cradle of Our King": Affection, Awe, and Abridging the Laws of Time in Crashaw -- Conclusion: The Christ Child: Little Boy Lost.