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Preface v v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Women Writing of Divinest Things 1 I. Rhetoric and Devotion in Pembroke’s Psalmes 33 ONE The Politics of Prayer 39 TWO Private Rhetoric and Public Oratory 47 THREE Bringing God Before Our Eyes 69 FOUR Devotional Decorum 85 II. Sacred and Secular in Wroth’s “A crowne of Sonetts” 103 FIVE The Rhetorical Sonnet 111 SIX Reading in Circles 123 SEVEN Figuring the Sacred and the Secular 129 EIGHT Crowns of Devotion 153 vi Preface Contents III. Persuasion and Praise in Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 165 NINE Proving Women’s Worth 177 TEN Disciplines and Species 197 ELEVEN Decorum and Persuasion 209 TWELVE The Art That Denies Art 229 Conclusion 247 Notes 257 Index 323 ...