Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry.

Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century.

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely-acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries.

The book provides an accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative new interpretation of a crucial period in the development of early modern religious and moral thought.

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries.