The house of death : messages from the English Renaissance

PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: Three Essays in BackgroundChapter 1: What Renaissance Poets Would Have KnownChapter 2: Answers and QuestionsChapter 3: Donne's Pictures of the Good DeathPart II: Writing About One's Own DeathChapter 4: Respice FinemChapter 5: Death in Earnest: "Tichborne's Elegy"Chapter 6: Dying in Jest and Earnest: RaleighChapter 7: Imagined Dyings: John DonneChapter 8: Entering the History of Death: George HerbertChapter 9: "The Plaudite, or End of Life"Part III: On the Death of Someone ElseChapter 10: IntroductionChapter 11: Lament, Praise, Consolation: Pain/Difficulty, EaseChapter 12: The Death of a Loved One: Personal and Public ExpressionsChapter 13: Episodes in the Progress of DeathPart IV: ExpressionChapter 14: Preliminary ViewsChapter 15: Thoughts and ImagesChapter 16: Images of ReflectionChapter 17: Reasoning by ResemblancesChapter 18: IntricaciesChapter 19: The EndNotesIndex