Made flesh: sacrament and poetics in post-Reformation England

Introduction. Eucharistic poetics : the Word made flesh

chapter 1. "The bodie and the letters both" : textual immanence in The temple

chapter 2. Edward Taylor's "Menstruous cloth" : structure as seal in the Preparatory meditations

chapter 3. Embracing the medium : metaphor and resistance in John Donne

chapter 4. Richard Crashaw's indigestible poetics

chapter 5. Immanent textualities in a postsacramental world.