Jones — Fighting Words

Jones, Susan E. “Fighting Words: Clashes of Discourse in Three Seventeenth-Century Anglican Writers: Henry Vaughan, Jeremy Taylor, and Thomas Traherne.” Dissertation, University of Florida, 1997.

Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (January 1998): 2668A.

Grant — Transformation of Sin

Grant, Patrick. The Transformation of Sin: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press; University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.

White — Metaphysical Poets

White, Helen C. The Metaphysical Poets: A Study in Religious Experience. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

“Introduction: Mysticism and Poetry”; “The Intellectual Climate”; “The Religious Climate”; “Metaphysical Poetry”; “The Conversions of John Donne”; “The Divine Poetry of John Donne”; “George Herbert and the Road to Bemerton”; “George Herbert and The Temple”; “Richard Crashaw: Little Gidding to Rome”; “Richard Crashaw: ‘Poet and Saint’”; “Henry Vaughan: The Country Doctor”; “The Poetry of Henry Vaughan”; “Thomas Traherne: The Pursuit of Felicity”; “Thomas Traherne: Poems and Meditations”; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Reprinted: New York: Collier Books, 1962.

Reviews: Alfred Kazin, Books, 6 December, 1936, p. 18; Sister Louise Berchmans, “Poets and Mystics All,” America 56 (20 February 1937): 477.

Cox — Tradition and Devotion

Cox, Gerard H. “Tradition and Devotion: The Prose Meditations of John Donne, Jeremy Taylor, and Thomas Traherne.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.

Dissertation Abstracts International 29 (1969): 3970A.

Stranks — Anglican Devotion

Stranks, C. J. Anglican Devotion: Studies in the Spiritual Life of the Church of England Between the Reformation and the Oxford Movement. London: SCM Press, 1961.

Contents: “The Reformation and Personal Religion”; “The Practice of Piety”; “Holy Living and Holy Dying” [Lancelot Andrewes, John Cosin, Jeremy Taylor]; “Centuries of Meditation” [Thomas Traherne]; “The Whole Duty of Man”; “Devotion Based on the Prayer Book”; “A Serious Call” [William Law]; “A Practical View” [William Wilberforce]; “The Christian Year” [John Keble]; “Some Characteristics of Anglican Devotion.”