(The) Cambridge companion to John Donne / edited by Achsah Guibbory

Includes bibliography and index

Donne's life: a sketch -- Jonathan F. S. Post The text of Donne's writings -- Ted-Larry Pebworth The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters -- Arthur F. Marotti Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries -- Andrew Hadfield Donne's religious world -- Alison Shell and Arnold Hunt Donne's political world -- Tom Cain Reading and rereading Donne's poetry -- Judith Scherer Herz Satirical writing: Donne in shadows -- Annabel Patterson Erotic poetry -- Achsah Guibbory Devotional writing -- Helen Wilcox Donne as preacher -- Peter McCullough Donne's language: the conditions of communication -- Lynne Magnusson Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems -- Ilona Bell Facing death -- Ramie Targoff Donne's afterlife -- Dayton Haskin Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind -- A. S. Byatt