Contents: Prologue: poetry and reformation in renaissance England -- 1. Toward a poetics of persuasion -- Liturgical change for social reform -- The scene of religious writing in the English renaissance -- Resources for a homiletics of poetic discourse -- Persuasive poetics and the interchanges of renaissance writing -- 2. Edmund Spenser -- Spenser's celebration of the word -- The poetics of Christian commonwealth in The faerie Queene -- The homiletics of marriage in Spenser's Epithalamion -- 3. George Herbert -- Herbert, Spenser, and the poetics of church and commonwealth -- The practical piety of The temple -- The didactic priesthood of The country parson -- The dialectics of choice in "The Church Porch" -- The eucharistic work of "The Church" in the dissemination of Christ -- Herbert, Sidney, and the Petrarchan tradition of love -- Herbert's uses of the Bible in The temple -- Time, History, and "The Church Militant" -- 4. Henry Vaughan -- Vaughan and the poetics of absence -- Vaughan's uses of The temple -- The homiletics of searching in Silex Scintillans (1650) -- The homiletics of expectation in Silex Scintillans (1655) -- Epilogue: toward a poetics of restoration -- Thomas Traherne and the poetics of recovery -- John Dryden and the reasonableness of religion

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Contents: Prologue: poetry and reformation in renaissance England -- 1. Toward a poetics of persuasion -- Liturgical change for social reform -- The scene of religious writing in the English renaissance -- Resources for a homiletics of poetic discourse -- Persuasive poetics and the interchanges of renaissance writing -- 2. Edmund Spenser -- Spenser's celebration of the word -- The poetics of Christian commonwealth in The faerie Queene -- The homiletics of marriage in Spenser's Epithalamion -- 3. George Herbert -- Herbert, Spenser, and the poetics of church and commonwealth -- The practical piety of The temple -- The didactic priesthood of The country parson -- The dialectics of choice in "The Church Porch" -- The eucharistic work of "The Church" in the dissemination of Christ -- Herbert, Sidney, and the Petrarchan tradition of love -- Herbert's uses of the Bible in The temple -- Time, History, and "The Church Militant" -- 4. Henry Vaughan -- Vaughan and the poetics of absence -- Vaughan's uses of The temple -- The homiletics of searching in Silex Scintillans (1650) -- The homiletics of expectation in Silex Scintillans (1655) -- Epilogue: toward a poetics of restoration -- Thomas Traherne and the poetics of recovery -- John Dryden and the reasonableness of religion

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