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Author:   Tom Cain (Newcastle University)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781119844679

ISBN 10:   1119844673
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   04 June 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii Texts and Abbreviations ix Other Abbreviations xi Introduction xii 1 Family and Childhood 1 2 Education & Early Travels 12 3 Move Away from Rome, the Inns of Court and Early Poems 26 4 Elegies, Satires and Early Lyrics 46 5 Portrait and Volunteer 66 6 Secretary to the Lord Keeper 84 7 Anne More: Courtship, Marriage and Its Aftermath 94 8 Later Love Poems and Travel 112 9 Mitcham: Dowry, Married Love and Sex 127 10 Religious Poetry and Prose 1607–1611 142 11 The Anniversaries, Good Friday and the Decision to Enter the Church 161 12 ‘A Preacher in Earnest’: Anne’s Death and the Doncaster Embassy 180 13 Dean of St Paul’s, Devotions, Death and Resurrection 197 References 218 Index 223

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TOM CAIN is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Literature at Newcastle University, where he previously served as Professor and Head of the School of English. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan and Exeter University. A leading scholar of seventeenth-century literature, Cain has published extensively on Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Herrick, and edited major texts including Ben Jonson’s Complete Poems, The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick, and Nicholas Hilliard’s Arte of Limning.

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