Texts of the poems --

The altar ; The sacrifice ; The thanksgiving ; The reprisal ; The agony ; Good Friday ; Redemption ; Sepulchre ; Easter wings ; Easter ; H. baptism (I) ; H. Baptism (II) ; Sin (I) ; Affliction (I) ; Prayer (I) ; [Prayer (II)] ; The h. communion ; [Church lock-and-key] ; Love I ; Love II ; The temper (I) ; The temper (II) ; Jordan (I) ; Employment (I) ; The h. scriptures I ; The h. scriptures (II) ; Whitsunday ; Grace ; Church monuments ; Church music ; The windows ; The quiddity ; The star ; Sunday ; Anagram ; Employment (II) ; Denial ; Christmas ; The world ; Vanity (I) ; Virtue ; The pearl : Matt. 13:45 ; Affliction (IV) ; Man ; Life ; Mortification ; Jordan (II) ; Obedience ; The British church ; The quip ; Iesu ; Dialogue ; Dullness ; Sin's round ; Peace ; The bunch of grapes ; The storm ; Paradise ; The size ; Artillery ; The pilgrimage ; The bag ; The collar ; Joseph's coat ; The pulley ; The search ; The flower ; The son ; A true hymn ; Bitter-sweet ; Aaron ; The forerunners ; Discipline ; The banquet ; The elixir ; A wreath ; Death ; Doomsday ; Judgement ; Heaven ; Love (III) ; [My God, where is that ancient heat ...] ; Sure Lord, there is enough ...] / George Herbert --

To the infant martyrs ; Upon the infant martyrs ; On the water of our Lord's baptism ; To our Lord, Upon the water made wine ; Upon the ass that bore our Saviour ; I am the door ; Upon Lazarus his tears ; Matthew 27 : and he answered them nothing ; Upon our Saviour's tomb wherein never man was laid ; On Mr. G. Herbert's book ; Music's duel ; In the holy nativity of our Lord God : a hymn sung as by the shepherds ; Saint Mary Magdalene or The weeper ; A hymn to the name and honor of the admirable Saint Teresa ; from The flaming heart ; To the noblest and best of ladies, the Countess of Denbigh --

A dialogue between the resolved soul and created pleasure ; On a drop of dew ; The coronet ; Eyes and tears ; Bermudas ; A dialogue between the soul and body ; The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn ; To his coy mistress ; The definition of love ; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; The mower against gardens ; Damon the mower ; The mower to the glowworms ; The mower's song ; Music's empire ; The garden ; An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland ; Upon Appleton House / Andrew Marvell --

Regeneration ; The search ; The shower ; Distraction ; The pursuit ; Mount of Olives (I) ; The incarnation, and passion ; Vanity of spirit ; The retreat ; [Joy of my life! While left me here] ; The morning watch ; [Silence, and stealth of days!] ; Burial ; [Sure, there's a tie of bodies!] ; Peace ; [And do they so? Have they a sense] ; Corruption ; Unprofitablenes ; Idle verse ; Son-days ; The dawning ; Retirement ; Love, and discipline ; The world ; Mount of Olives (II) ; Man ; [I walked the other day ...] ; Ascension hymn ; [They are all gone into the world of light!] ; Cock-crowing ; The bird ; The timber ; The knot ; The rainbow ; The seed growing secretly ; [As time one day by me did pass] ; The dwelling place ; The night ; The waterfall ; Quickness ; The book / Henry Vaughan --

The salutation ; Wonder ; Eden ; Innocence ; The preparative ; The rapture ; My spirit ; Love ; On news ; The return ; Shadows in the water ; On leaping over the moon / Thomas Traherne.

Criticism --

Metaphysical poets and devotional poets / Anthony Low --

[Letters] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --

[The inner weather] / Aldous Huxley

[Anglican George Herbert] /

W.H. Auden --

[George Herbert as religious poet] / T.S. Eliot --

[George Herbert: Resolution and conflict] / L.C. Knights --

[Herbert's "Prayer (I)] / The poem as hieroglyph / Joseph H. Summers

[Crashaw: Single-hearted worshipper] /

Douglas Bush --

[Richard Crashaw: Intellectual poet] / Helen C. White --

[Crashaw's symbolism] / Austin Warren --

Crashaw's other voice / Richard Strier --

The argument of Marvell's "Garden" / Frank Kermode --

Marvell's 'Garden' / William Empson --

[On "The nymph complaining . . ."] / M.C. Bradbook and M.G. Lloyd Thomas --

Marvell's "The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn" / Edward S. Le Comte

Marvell's "The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn": A reply /

Karina Williamson --

[Marvell's religious poems] / Dennis Davison

Marvell's "Nature" /

Joseph H. Summers --

[Henry Vaughan] / Robert Ellrodt --

[Henry Vaughan/s "Regeneration"] / E.C. Pettet --

Henry's Vaughn's Apology for darkness / S. Sandbank --

[Thomas Traherne] / Robert Ellrodt --

[Traherne the writer] / H.M. Margoliouth --

[On Traherne's "My spirit"] / Arthur Clements --

[Traherne the poet] / Stanley Stewart.