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CONTENTS
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xiii | |
| INTRODUCTION: GREEN THOUGHTS, GREEN SHADES Jonathan F.S. Post | 3 | |
| ONE | THE FACE OF THE SONNET: WYATT AND SOME EARLY FEATURES OF THE TRADITION Peter Sacks | 17 |
| TWO | SIDNEY AND THE SESTINA Anthony Hecht | 41 |
| THREE | NAKED NUMBERS: A CURVE FROM WYATT TO ROCHESTER Heather McHugh | 59 |
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| FOUR | BEN JONSON AND THE LOATHÈD WORD Linda Gregerson | 86 |
| FIVE | DONNE'S SOVEREIGNTY Calvin Bedient | 109 |
| SIX | ANOMALY, CONUNDRUM, thy-will-be-done ON THE POETRY OF GEORGE HERBERT Carl Phillips | 136 |
| SEVEN | MILTON IN THE MODERN: THE INVENTION OF PERSONALITY William Logan | 160 |
| EIGHT | FINDING ANNE BRADSTREET Eavan Boland | 176 |
| NINE | UNORDINARY PASSIONS MARGARET CAVENDISH, THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE Alice Fulton | 191 |
| TEN | “HOW COY A FIGURE”: MARVELRY Stephen Yenser | 220 |
| ELEVEN | SAINT JOHN THE RAKE: ROCHESTER'S POETRY Thom Gunn | 242 |
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| TWELVE | EDWARD TAYLOR: WHAT WAS HE UP TO? Robert Hass | 257 |
| LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS | 289 | |
| INDEX | 293 |