Table of Contents

Introduction: towards a poetics of conversion; 1. William Alabaster's lyric turn; 2. John Donne and the language of de-nomination; 3. Richard Crashaw and the gender of conversion; 4. Versing and reversing in the poetry of John Dryden; Afterword: Eliot's inheritance and criticism of conversion; Bibliography.

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This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

About the Author

Molly Murray is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published articles on medieval and Renaissance literature and culture in English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, and a variety of edited collections, including Catholic Culture in Early Modern England, edited by Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, and Arthur Marotti (2007).