Jesse Sharpe PhD thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText ...

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CONTENTS
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................. i
Thesis Declarations ........................................................................................................................... ii
Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................... iii
A Note on the Text............................................................................................................................. v
I. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
II. John Donne’s Incarnating Words ................................................................................................. 36
III. Incarnation as Social Protest in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ........................................................ 96
IV. George Herbert Discussing the Word ....................................................................................... 127
V. Robert Herrick’s Church of Earthly Delights ............................................................................. 173
VI. ‘Looke Downe to Heaven’: Experiencing the Incarnation in Richard Crashaw’s Poetry ............ 205
Postscript ....................................................................................................................................... 244
Bibliography .................................................................................................................................. 246