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Notes on Contributors DONALD M. FRIEDMAN is Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He was educated at Columbia College, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard University. His current projects are a study of the representation of perception in seventeenth-century English poetry and an essay on skepticism in Carew. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB is Professor of English at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut and editor of the George Herbert Journal. His recent work includes an edition of An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (forthcoming from the Renaissance English Text Society) and Hitchcock on Hitchcock (University of California Press). CRISTINA MALCOLMSON is Associate Professor of English at Bates College. Her published articles include "George Herbert's Country Parson and the Character of Social Identity" (Studies in Philology, 1988), as well as feminist analyses of Shakespeare, Middleton, and Marvell. She is completing a book on Herbert and vocation. LOUIS L. MARTZ is Sterling Professor of English, Emeritus, at Yale University. His early work on seventeenth-century literature includes The Poetry ofMeditation (1954) and The Paradise Within (1964), and his recent essays have been collected in From Renaissance to Baroque (1991). For "Oxford Authors" he has edited a combined volume of Herbert and Vaughan (1986), and his separate editions of Herbert and Vaughan have appeared in the "Oxford Poetry Library" (1994, 1995). JONATHAN F.S. POST is Professor of English at University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of books on Henry Vaughan and Sir Thomas Browne, and a number of essays on Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature. PETER SACKS is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The English Elegy: 216Notes on Contributors Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats, and of two collections of poetry, In These Mountains and Promised Lands. MICHAEL C. SCHOENFELDT is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert andRenaissance Courtship (1991), and of articles on Spenser, Donne, Herrick, and Milton. JOSEPH H. SUMMERS is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester. His book George Herbert: His Religion &Art first appeared in 1954. His friendship with Elizabeth Bishop extended from 1946 until her death in 1979. HELEN VENDLER is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. She has published (all with Harvard University Press) books on Yeats, Stevens, Herbert, and Keats, and her essays on contemporary poetry have been collected in the three volumes Part ofNature, Part of Us, The Music of What Happens, and Soul Says. Her recent T.S. Eliot Lectures have been published as The Given and the Made: Lowell, Berryman, Dove, and Graham, and her Richard Ellmann Lectures as The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham. She is completing a commentary on Shakespeare's Sonnets. JAMES BOYD WHITE is Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of English Language and Literature, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, and Chair of the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. His books include The Legal Imagination (1973), When Words Lose Their Meaning (1984), Justice as Translation (1990), Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics (1994), and, "This Book ofStarres": Learning to Read George Herbert (1994). HELEN WlLCOX is Professor of English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on early modern English literature, particularly Shakespeare, devotional literature, autobiography, and women's writing. Among her publications are George Herbert: Sacred and Profane (1995, co-edited with Richard Todd), "George Herbert," in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell (1993), and the forthcoming Longmans Annotated Edition of Herbert's poems. ...

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