Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton: Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
“The Sad Prophet Jeremiah” as an Icon of Renaissance Melancholy....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
“I Turne My Back to Thee, but to Receive / Corrections”: Donne and the Art of Convetere in The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremelius, and “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward”....Pages 27-52
“First the Burden, and Then the Ease”: Donne and the Art of Convetere in the Sermon on Lamentations 3.1 and in the Letter to His Mother....Pages 53-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
“My Heart Hath Store, Write There”: Writing on and in the Heart in Herbert’s The Temple ....Pages 71-103
“Then Was My Heart Broken, as Was My Verse”: Visualizing the Heart in The Temple ....Pages 105-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
“With New Acquist / of True Experience”: The Failed Revolutionary in the Letter to Heimbach and Samson Agonistes ....Pages 137-163
“And Had None to Cry to, but with the Prophet, O Earth, Earth, Earth!”: Style, Witnessing, and Mythmaking in Milton’s The Readie and Easie Way ....Pages 165-185
“As a Burning Fire Shut Up in My Bones”: From Polemic to Prophecy in The Reason of Church Government and The Readie and Easie Way ....Pages 187-204
“Unapocryphall Vision”: Jeremiah as Exemplary Model for Donne, Herbert, and Milton....Pages 205-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-275