This is an extensive study of Henry Vaughan's use of the sonnet cycle. Calhoun attempts to interrelate major historical, theoretical, and biographical details a

Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a single author

The Lithic Imagination from More to Miltonexplores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cu

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and lit

English devotional poets of 17c set in a wider European and Catholic context.