A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. Southwell and paradox; 2. Donne and punning; 3. Herbert and Metanoia; 4. Crashaw and metonymy; 5. Vaughan and synecdoche; 6. Milton and metaphor; Epilogue; Select bibliography.

Sophie Read is a University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.