The Metaphysics of Love : Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Preamble: The lineage of love; 1. Sense and innocencesm; 2. Against mortality; 3. Body and soul; 4. Among the wastes of time: seventeenth-century love poetry, and the failure of love; 5. Through nature to eternity: Vaughan's Silex Scintillans; 6. Humanity vindicated: Milton's pattern of heroic love; Notes; Index.