Publications

1. Books

An asterisk (*) indicates those publications of primary importance.

(a) Authored

1. Milton, Guided Independent Study (English 375 [354C]).  UBC Access, 1989, rev. 1997. 

2. *The Sempiternal Season: Studies in Seventeenth‑Century Devotional Writing.   Seventeenth‑Century Texts and Studies, 3. New York: Peter Lang, 1992 (xiii + 185pp. + 2 illus.).

3.  *Izaak Walton: 1593–1683.  New York: Twayne, 1998 (xviii + 126pp.).

4.  *John Donne and the Line of Wit: From Metaphysical to Modernist.  The Sedgewick Lecture, 2008.   Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2008.

5.  *The Metaphorical Metaphysic of John Donne: An Interpretation of His Poetry and His Prose. Lewiston, NY:  Edwin Mellen Press, 2021 (368 pp.).

(b) Edited

1. * John Cosin, A Collection of Private Devotions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967 (liii + 371pp. + 3 plates).

2.   Henry More, Democritus Platonissans. The Augustan Reprint Society, 130.  Los Angeles: University of California, 1968 (xii + 62pp.).  Reprinted New York: AMS, 1995.

3. *William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life and The Spirit of Love (with Austin Warren). New York: Paulist Press, 1978 (526pp.). Reprinted 1998. 

4. *Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Books VI, VII, VIII).  The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, vol. 3.  Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981 (lxxx + 644pp. + 14 plates).

5. *John Donne and the Theology of Language (with Heather Ross Asals). Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986 (384pp.).

6. *Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living and Holy Dying. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.  Oxford English Texts.  Vol. 1: Holy Living (lxxv + 346pp. + 10 illus.); vol. 2: Holy Dying (xxviii + 284pp. + 4 illus.).

7. *Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and His World. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995 (xxi + 333pp. + 5 illus.). Twenty‑one original essays from the Fourth International Milton Symposium, edited and with an introduction.

8. *Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti (with David A. Kent).  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998 (xii + 404pp. + 10 illus.).

9. *Contributing editor, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, vol. 7, part 1: “The Divine Poems: The Holy Sonnets,” general editor, Gary A. Stringer.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

10. *"Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript" (with Peter McCullough, Ray Siemens, et al.), Early Modern Literary Studies Texts Series 2 (2011).  http://www.extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/andrewes/andrewe4.html. See 2. Other Refereed Publications, (a) Journals, 27, below.

11. *Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640 (with Torrance Kirby), chapter 17: "John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: 'Right Cause and Faithful Obedience.'" Leiden: Brill, 2014.  

12. *Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642 (with Torrance Kirby, et al.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

(c) Chapters

1. “On the `Baroque’ Sensibility.”  In Teacher and Critic: Essays by and about Austin Warren, edited by Myron Simon and Harvey Gross, 146–49. Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1976.

2. *“Christina Rossetti’s Devotional Prose.”  In The Achievement of Christina Rossetti, edited by  David A. Kent, 231–47.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, rept. 1989.

3. “On Altering the Present to Fit the Past.”  In Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets, edited by Sidney Gottlieb, 75–80.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

4. “Preface.”  In John Donne: Selections, edited by John E. Booty, 3–8.  New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

5. *“Milton’s Lycidas and Earlier Seventeenth‑Century Opera.”  In Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions, edited by Mario A. Di Cesare, 293–303.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991.

6.  “A Panel Discussion.”  In Renaissance Discourses of Desire: Sexuality in Renaissance Non‑Dramatic Literature, edited by Claude Summers and Ted‑Larry Pebworth, 159–62.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

7. *“Liturgy, Worship, and the Sons of Light.”  In New Perspectives on the Seventeenth‑Century English Religious Lyric, edited by John R. Roberts, 105–23. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.

8. *“Of Prelacy and Polity in Milton and Hooker.”  In Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance, edited by Margo Swiss and David A. Kent, 66–84.  Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995.

9. *“The Structure of Wit” (with Lee M. Johnson).  In The Wit of Seventeenth‑Century Poetry, edited by Claude Summers and Ted‑Larry Pebworth, 22–41. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995.

10. *“Donne’s Earliest Sermons and the Penitential Tradition.”  In John Donne’s Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross, edited by Raymond‑Jean Frontain and Frances Malpezzi, 66–84. Conway, AR: University of Central Arkansas Press, 1995.

11.  *“Donne’s Reinvention of the Fathers: Sacred Truths Suitably Expressed.”  In Sacred and Profane: Secular and Devotional Interplay in Early Modern British Literature, edited by Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd, and Alasdair MacDonald, 195–201.  Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995.

12.  “John Donne’s authorship of `The Apotheosis of Ignatius of Loyola.’”  In The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, edited by Gary A. Stringer et al, 252–53, 467–71. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 

13. *“Richard Hooker’s Discourse and the Deception of Posterity.”  In English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics, edited by Neil Rhodes, 75–90.  Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997.

14. *“Community and Social Order in the Great Tew Circle.”  In Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England, edited by Claude Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, 173–86.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000.

15. *“Revisiting Joseph Beaumont.”  In Discovering and (Re)covering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric, edited by Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson, 290–307.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001.

16. *“Consolatory Grief in the Funeral Sermons of Donne and Taylor.”  In Speaking Grief in Engish Literary Culture: Shakespeare to Milton, edited by Margo Swiss and David A. Kent, 197–216.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2002.

17. *“Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons.”  In Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, 140–55.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

18. “Foreword.”  Richard Hooker and the English Reformation, edited by Torrance Kirby, xiii-xviii.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

19. “Works and Editions” [of Richard Hooker].  In A Companion to Richard Hooker, edited by Torrance Kirby, chap. II.  Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008.

20. “The Unity and Discord of Richard Hooker’s Prose.”  In Approaches to the Teaching of Early Modern Prose, edited by Margaret Ferguson and Susannah Monta.   New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008.

21. "Revisiting Izaak Walton's Lives." In Richard Hooker: His Life, Work, and Legacy, Essays in Honour of W. David Neelands, edited by Daniel F. Graves and Scott Kindred-Barnes, 230-41. Toronto: St. Osmond Press, 2013.

22. "W. Speed Hill and the Folger Library Edition of Richard Hooker." In New Ways of Looking at Old Texts V, edited by Michael Denbo, xi-xiv. Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society, 2015.

23. *"Sin, Judgement, and Eternity," in the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Religion, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox, chap. 39.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

(d) Bibliographies

1. *The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 600–1660. Vol. I: “Fisher to Donne”; “Richard Hooker”; “Martin Marprelate”; “The Caroline Divines.” Cambridge, 1974. Cols. 1915‑2006 (46pp.).

2. *Contributing editor (on John Donne), Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 81 (2002), vol. 82 (2003), vol. 83 (2004).  Published by the English Association (Leicester, UK).

(e) Encyclopedia Articles

1. “Hooker and Spenser.”  In Spenser Encyclopedia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.

2. *“John Cosin” and “John Hales.”  In Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century, vol. 151, edited by Clayton Lein.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.

3. “William Law.”  In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig. London: Routledge, 1998.

4. “W. A. Mozart,” “Henry Purcell,” “Richard Strauss.”  In The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Jack Zipes.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

5. “Lancelot Andrewes.”  In Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, edited by Arthur F. Kinney. Hamden, CT: Garland, 2001.

6. “Edward Benlowes,” “Giles Fletcher,” “Phineas Fletcher.”  In The New Dictionary of National Biography.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

2. Other Refereed Publications

(a) Journals

1. “The Triumph of the Sea: Three Poems of John Peale Bishop (1892–1944),” Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 8 (1963): 212–18.

2. *“St. Teresa and Joseph Beaumont’s Psyche,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 533–50.

3. *“A Portrait of Stuart Orthodoxy,” Church Quarterly Review 165 (1964): 27–39.

4. “John Cosin as Homilist,” Anglican Theological Review 47 (1965): 276–89.

5. “Richard Crashaw at Rome,” Notes and Queries n.s. 13 (1966): 256–57.  Cf. The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. G. W. Williams (New York, 1970), p. xix, and also Hilton Kelliher, “Crashaw at Cambridge and Rome,” Notes and Queries n.s. 19 (1972): 18–19.

6. *“A Donne Discovery,” Times Literary Supplement [London], 19 October 1967: 984.  Rept. in The Complete Poetry of John Donne, ed. John T. Shawcross (New York: New York University Press, 1967, 1968); in John Donne, Ignatius His Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); and in The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, ed. Gary Stringer et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 8:252–53, 467–71.  Cf. Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, 4th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973): 14‑15, and TLS, 12 February 1982: 162.

7. “Cosin’s Correspondence” (with A. I. Doyle), Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 5.1 (1969): 74–78.

8. “Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library,”  Durham University Journal n.s. 31 (1970): 81–90.

9. *“Contemporary and Patristic Borrowing in the Caroline Divines,” Renaissance Quarterly 23 (1970): 421–29.

10. *“‘Essential Joye’ in Donne’s Anniversaries,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 13 (1971): 227–38. Rept. in Essential Articles for the Study of Donne’s Poetry, edited by John R. Roberts, 387-–96.  Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. 

11. “Richard Hooker’s Use of Thomas More” (with Laetitia Yeandle), Moreana 35 (1972): 5–16.

12. “The Liveliness of Flesh and Blood: Herbert’s `Prayer I’ and `Love III,’”  Seventeenth‑Century News 31 (1973): 52–53.

13. *“An Autograph Manuscript by Richard Hooker” (with Laetitia Yeandle), Manuscripta 18 (1974): 38–42.

14. “Stobaeus and Classical Borrowing in the Renaissance, with special reference to Richard Hooker and Jeremy Taylor,” Neophilologus 59 (1975): 141–46.

15. “The Richard Hooker Manuscripts” (on the autograph notes and drafts of Book VIII of the Ecclesiastical Polity, in Trinity College, Dublin), Long Room (Dublin) 2 (1975): 7–10.

16. “Fantasy and Fairy Tale in Twentieth Century Opera,” Mosaic 10.2 (1977): 183–5.

17. “Three Manuscript Sermon Fragments of Richard Hooker” (with Laetitia Yeandle),  Manuscripta 21 (1977): 33–37.

18. *“John Donne’s Sermon Notes,” Review of English Studies 29 (1978): 313–20.

19. *“Time and Liturgy in Donne, Crashaw, and T. S. Eliot,” Mosaic 12.2 (1979): 91–105.

20. “Seventeenth‑Century English Literature and Contemporary Criticism,” Anglican Theological Review 62 (1980): 62–73.

21. *“Time and Liturgy in Herbert’s Poetry,” George Herbert Journal  5 (Fall 1981/Spring–Summer 1982): 19–30.

22. “Affliction and Flight in Herbert’s Poetry: A Note,” Early Modern Literary Studies  1.2 (1995): 5.1–11.  http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/emls/01-2/stanherb.html

23. *“Donne’s Art of Preaching and the Reconstruction of Tertullian, “John Donne Journal 15 (1996): 153–69.

24. “Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Francis Corbett,  1635–1660,” Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (1999): x.1–19.  With illustrations.    http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/emls/05-1/stanlive.html  Reprinted in Word and Worship, ed. David M. Loades. Oxford: Davenant Press, 2005. 

25. “The Vision of God in the Sonnets of John Donne and George Herbert,” John Donne Journal 21 (2002): 89-100. 

26. *"The Book of Common Prayer as Literature.” In The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer Worldwide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

27. *“Lancelot Andrewes’s ‘Orphan Lectures’: The Exeter Manuscript,” English Manuscript Studies 13 (British Library, 2007): 35– 46. With illustrations.

28. *"Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript," with Peter McCullough, Ray Siemens, and others (a much expanded version of 27, above, with transcriptions and notes), Early Modern Literary Studies Texts Series 2 (2011).   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/andrewes/andrewe4.htm

29. *"Paradise Lost: Epic and Opera," Early Modern Literary Studies 15.3 (2011).  With audio illustrations.   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/15-3/stanpl2.htm

30. *"John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: Right Cause and Faithful Obedience." In Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640. Leiden: Brill, 2014.  See BOOKS (b) Edited, #10, above. 

31. *"Essayes in Divinity and Donne's Reading of Genesis," John Donne Journal  34 (2015 for 2018): 153--70.  

(a) Journals

1. “The Triumph of the Sea: Three Poems of John Peale Bishop (1892–1944),” Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 8 (1963): 212–18.

2. *“St. Teresa and Joseph Beaumont’s Psyche,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 533–50.

3. *“A Portrait of Stuart Orthodoxy,” Church Quarterly Review 165 (1964): 27–39.

4. “John Cosin as Homilist,” Anglican Theological Review 47 (1965): 276–89.

5. “Richard Crashaw at Rome,” Notes and Queries n.s. 13 (1966): 256–57.  Cf. The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. G. W. Williams (New York, 1970), p. xix, and also Hilton Kelliher, “Crashaw at Cambridge and Rome,” Notes and Queries n.s. 19 (1972): 18–19.

6. *“A Donne Discovery,” Times Literary Supplement [London], 19 October 1967: 984.  Rept. in The Complete Poetry of John Donne, ed. John T. Shawcross (New York: New York University Press, 1967, 1968); in John Donne, Ignatius His Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); and in The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, ed. Gary Stringer et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 8:252–53, 467–71.  Cf. Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, 4th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973): 14‑15, and TLS, 12 February 1982: 162.

7. “Cosin’s Correspondence” (with A. I. Doyle), Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 5.1 (1969): 74–78.

8. “Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library,”  Durham University Journal n.s. 31 (1970): 81–90.

9. *“Contemporary and Patristic Borrowing in the Caroline Divines,” Renaissance Quarterly 23 (1970): 421–29.

10. *“‘Essential Joye’ in Donne’s Anniversaries,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 13 (1971): 227–38. Rept. in Essential Articles for the Study of Donne’s Poetry, edited by John R. Roberts, 387-–96.  Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. 

11. “Richard Hooker’s Use of Thomas More” (with Laetitia Yeandle), Moreana 35 (1972): 5–16.

12. “The Liveliness of Flesh and Blood: Herbert’s `Prayer I’ and `Love III,’”  Seventeenth‑Century News 31 (1973): 52–53.

13. *“An Autograph Manuscript by Richard Hooker” (with Laetitia Yeandle), Manuscripta 18 (1974): 38–42.

14. “Stobaeus and Classical Borrowing in the Renaissance, with special reference to Richard Hooker and Jeremy Taylor,” Neophilologus 59 (1975): 141–46.

15. “The Richard Hooker Manuscripts” (on the autograph notes and drafts of Book VIII of the Ecclesiastical Polity, in Trinity College, Dublin), Long Room (Dublin) 2 (1975): 7–10.

16. “Fantasy and Fairy Tale in Twentieth Century Opera,” Mosaic 10.2 (1977): 183–5.

17. “Three Manuscript Sermon Fragments of Richard Hooker” (with Laetitia Yeandle),  Manuscripta 21 (1977): 33–37.

18. *“John Donne’s Sermon Notes,” Review of English Studies 29 (1978): 313–20.

19. *“Time and Liturgy in Donne, Crashaw, and T. S. Eliot,” Mosaic 12.2 (1979): 91–105.

20. “Seventeenth‑Century English Literature and Contemporary Criticism,” Anglican Theological Review 62 (1980): 62–73.

21. *“Time and Liturgy in Herbert’s Poetry,” George Herbert Journal  5 (Fall 1981/Spring–Summer 1982): 19–30.

22. “Affliction and Flight in Herbert’s Poetry: A Note,” Early Modern Literary Studies  1.2 (1995): 5.1–11.  http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/emls/01-2/stanherb.html

23. *“Donne’s Art of Preaching and the Reconstruction of Tertullian, “John Donne Journal 15 (1996): 153–69.

24. “Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Francis Corbett,  1635–1660,” Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (1999): x.1–19.  With illustrations.    http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/emls/05-1/stanlive.html  Reprinted in Word and Worship, ed. David M. Loades. Oxford: Davenant Press, 2005. 

25. “The Vision of God in the Sonnets of John Donne and George Herbert,” John Donne Journal 21 (2002): 89-100. 

26. *"The Book of Common Prayer as Literature.” In The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer Worldwide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

27. *“Lancelot Andrewes’s ‘Orphan Lectures’: The Exeter Manuscript,” English Manuscript Studies 13 (British Library, 2007): 35– 46. With illustrations.

28. *"Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript," with Peter McCullough, Ray Siemens, and others (a much expanded version of 27, above, with transcriptions and notes), Early Modern Literary Studies Texts Series 2 (2011).   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/andrewes/andrewe4.htm__

29. *"Paradise Lost: Epic and Opera," Early Modern Literary Studies 15.3 (2011).  With audio illustrations.   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/15-3/stanpl2.htm

30. *"John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: Right Cause and Faithful Obedience." In Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640. Leiden: Brill, 2014.  See BOOKS (b) Edited, #10, above. 

31. *"Essayes in Divinity and Donne's Reading of Genesis," John Donne Journal  34 (2015 for 2018): 153--70.  

(b) Reviews (mostly appearing in learned and professional journals)

1. W. R. Mueller, John Donne: Preacher, in Anglican Theological Review 45 (1963): 428–32.

2. Joan Webber, Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne, in Anglican Theological Review 46 (1964): 123–24.

3. P. A. Welsby, George Abbot, The Unwanted Archbishop, 1562–1633, in Anglican Theological Review 47 (1965): 121–22.

4. Hugh Barbour, The Quakers in Puritan England, in Anglican Theological Review 47 (1965): 313–17.

5. Stanley Stewart, The Enclosed Garden, in Seventeenth‑Century News 25 (1967): 30–31.

6. G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists, and C. A. Patrides, ed. The Cambridge Platonists, in Seventeenth‑Century News 28 (1970): 64–66.

7. Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), in Seventeenth‑Century News 29 (1971): 49.

8. John Donne, The Prebend Sermons, ed. Janel M. Mueller; W. Speed Hill, Richard Hooker: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Early Editions, 1593–1724, in Renaissance Quarterly 24 (1971): 572–74.

9. Robin Skelton, ed., The Cavalier Poets, in Canadian Literature 52 (Spring 1972): 98–99.

10. Nancy Lee Beaty, The Craft of Dying: The Literary Tradition of the Ars Moriendi in England, in Modern Philology 70 (1973): 260–63.

11. *Harold L. Weatherby, Cardinal Newman in His Age: His Place in English Theology and Literature, in Seventeenth‑Century News 32 (1974): 21.

12.   John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, ed. Anthony Raspa,  in  Seventeenth‑Century News 35 (1977): 5–6.

13.   Peter Milward, Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 77 (1978): 270–72.

14. *Patrick Cullen, Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton, in Modern Philology 76 (1978): 74–77.

15. Patricia Bruckmann, ed., Familiar Colloquy: Essays Presented to Arthur Edward Barker,  in Canadian Literature 83 (1979): 196–97.

16. Raymond A. Anselment, `Betwixt Jest and Earnest’: Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift and the Decorum of Religious Ridicule, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology  80 (1981): 253–55.

17. Kenneth Mason, George Herbert: Priest and Poet, in George Herbert Journal 4 (Spring 1981): 61–62.

18. Camille Wells Slights, The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, in George Herbert Journal 6 (Fall 1982): 42–47.

19. P. S. Sri, T. S. Eliot, Vedanta and Buddhism, in English Studies in Canada 13  (1987): 344–48.

20. *Horton Davies, Like Angels from a Cloud: The English Metaphysical Preachers 1588–1645, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 254–57.

21. *Paul R. Sellin, So Doth, So Is Religion: John Donne and Diplomatic Contexts in the Reformed Netherlands, 1619–1620, in Modern Philology 88 (1990): 75–78.

22. *John N. Wall, Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (1990): 551–54.

23. *Nicholas Lossky, Lancelot Andrewes The Preacher (1555–1626), in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93 (1994): 255–57.

24. *Kate Gartner Frost, Holy Delight: Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasion, in John Donne Journal 13 (1994): 181–85.

25. Jean H. Hagstrum, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare, in Early Modern Literary Studies 1.3 (December 1995): 5     <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/01-3/rev_sta1.html > and also Journal of the American Academy of Religion  64 (1996): 200–202.

26. Barbara L. Estrin, Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell, in  Seventeenth-Century News 55 (1996): 51.

27. Elizabeth Sauer, Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton’s Epics, in University of Toronto Quarterly, “Letters in Canada 1996” (1997): 206–07.

28. Raymond A. Anselment, The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, in Seventeenth-Century News 55 (1997): 18–19.

29. *Jeanne Shami, ed., “Recovering Donne’s Sermons,” review article on John Donne’s 1622 Gunpowder Sermon, in John Donne Journal 16 (1998): 229–33.

30. Daniel W. Doerksen, Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud, in English Studies in Canada 25 (1999): 207–10.

31. Roman R. Dubinski, English Religious Poetry Printed 1477–1640, in Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May 1999): 6.1–5 http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-1/stanrev.html

32. Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99 (2000): 137–39.

33. Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker, Prophet of Anglicanism, in Anglican Journal, March 2000, p. 14.

34. Carol V. Kaske, Spenser and Biblical Poetics, in Literature and Theology 14 (2000): 447–49.

35. Jeffrey Johnson, The Theology of John Donne, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001): 445–47.

36. Noam Flinker, The Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature, in Seventeenth-Century News 59 (2001): 220–23.

37. John N. King, Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost, in Sixteenth Century Journal 32 (2001): 1145–47.

38. Raymond Chapman, comp. , Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse: Clergy and Religious in Literature and Letters: An Anthology, in Anglican Theological Review 85 (2002): 743-46.

39. Kirsten Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton, in Sixteenth Century Journal  33 (2002): 236–38.

40. R. V. Young, Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth Century Poetry, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 1145–47.

41. Ann W. Astell, Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship, in Anglican Theological Review 86 (2003): 349-50.

42. Reid Barbour, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwelth in Seventeenth-Century England in Anglican Theological Review 87 (2004): 127-28.

43. Ronald W. Cooley, “Full of all knowledge”: George Herbert’s “Country Parson” and Early Modern Social Discourse, in Anglican Theological Review 87 (2004): 493-96.

44. David S. Cunningham, Reading is Believing: The Christian Faith through Literaturee and Film, in Anglican Theological Review 87 (2004): 135-36. 

45. Peter Edgerly Firchow, W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry, in Anglia 122 (2004): 353-56.

46. Judith Owens, Enabling Engagements: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Patronage, in Sixteenth Century Journal 35 (2004): 253-54.

47. Sharon Achinstein, Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England, in Seventeenth-Century News 63 (2005): 164-68.

48. Mary Arshagouni Papazian, ed., John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives, in Christianity and Literature 54 (2005): 440-44.

49. Hannibal Hamlin, Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature, in Anglia 124 (2006): 370–73.

50. Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, in The Recorder 13 (Spring 2007): 10–11. 

51. Graham Parry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour, in Seventeenth-Century News 65 (2007): 5–8.

52. Brent Nelson, Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne, in University of Toronto Quarterly, “Letters in Canada 2006”, 76 (2007): 409–10.

53. Elizabeth Sauer, ed., Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays by Balachandra Rajan, in University of Toronto Quarterly “Letters in Canada 2007”, 77 (2008): 

54. Julie Hirst, Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic, in Seventeenth-Century News 65 (2007): 180–82.

55. Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake, eds., Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England, in Seventeenth-Century News 66 (2008): 133-36.   http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/94990  

56. Helen Wilcox, ed., The English Poems of George Herbert, in Early Modern Literary Studies, 15.1 (2009-10)   http://purl.oclc.org/emls/15-1/revwilco.htm

57. Christopher Hodgkins, ed.,  George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton, in Christianity and Literature 61 (2011): 145-49.

58. Jeanne Shami, et al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of John Donne,  in Early Modern Literary Studies, 16.2 (2012): 8. http://purl.org/emls/16-2/revdonn.htm

59.  Joyce Ransome, The Web of Friendship: Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding, in Seventeenth-Century News 71 (2013): 125-27.

60.  Susanne Woods, Milton and the Poetics of Freedom, in Milton Quarterly 48 (2014): 179-80.

61. Nicholas J. Crowe, ed. Jeremias Drexel's 'Christian Zodiac' , in Seventeenth-Century News 73.1 (2015).

62. Allison K. Deutermann and Andras Kisery, eds., Formal Matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature, in Seventeenth-Century News 73.3-4 (2015): 121-24.        

63. Angelika Zirker,  William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the soul in early modern English poetry, in Seventeenth-Century News 77.3-4  (2019): 180-83. 

64. The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings, ed. William Poole, in Seventeenth-Century News 78.3-4 (2020), 107-111.

65. Roze Hentschell, St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices, in Seventeenth-Century News 79. 1-2 (2021). 

66. Patrick J. McGrath, Early Modern Asceticism: Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance, in Seventeenth-Century News 79. 3-4 (2021). 

67. Margaret Willes, In the Shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, in Seventeenth-Century News 80. 1-2 (2022).

(c) Conference Proceedings (selected)

1. “John Donne, T. S. Eliot, and the Sempiternal Season,” paper given to the Department of English, York University, 8 January 1970. 

2. “John Donne’s `Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day’ and the Second Prebend Sermon,” paper given at the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, St. John’s, Nfld., 29 May 1971.

3. “Richard Hooker’s Autograph Manuscript,” paper given at Modern Language Association Seminar 129, Chicago, 29 December 1973, and also Department of English, Purdue University, 26 March 1974.

4. “John Donne’s Sermon Notes,” paper given at “A Conference on Seventeenth‑Century Prose,” University of Michigan‑Dearborn, 8 October 1976.

5. “True Sons of His Right Hand: On Recovering the Three Last Books of Richard Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,” paper given at a symposium to mark the publication of the first two volumes of The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, at the Folger Library, Washington, DC, 4 March 1977; and at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, 10 March 1978.

6. “John Donne as Preacher and Critic,” paper given at King’s College, London, 18 January 1980.

7. “Time and Liturgy in T. S. Eliot and the Seventeenth Century,” paper given at Exeter University, 29 January 1980, and at Marburg University, Germany, 7 February 1980.

8. “Connections Between T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Drama,” paper given at the University of Mainz, Germany, 6 February 1980.

9. “The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker” in Current Research in Renaissance Studies Session, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Vancouver, 31 May 1983.

10. “Protestantism and the Royal Supremacy in More and Hooker,” paper given at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Seattle Pacific University, 3 March 1984.

11. “Some Versions of English Pastoralism,” paper given at the University of Mainz, Germany, 17 May 1985.

12. “The Caroline Divines,” lecture given at Vancouver School of Theology, 17 February 1987.

13. “Milton and Earlier Seventeenth‑Century Opera,” paper for the Third International Milton Symposium, Florence, Italy, 12 June 1988. Presented also to the Department of English Colloquium, UBC, 26 October 1988, and to the Department of English, University of Alberta, 3 February 1989.

14. “Anglican Spirituality of the Seventeenth Century,” lecture given at Vancouver School of Theology, 13 February 1989, and also February 1990 and 1991.

15. “Incarnational Time in John Donne,” paper given at the John Donne Society Conference, Gulfport, MS, 17 February 1989.

16. “A New Survey of Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century,” paper given at the Tri‑Universities Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 4 March 1989.

17. “`Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord’: Hopkins, Donne, and Herbert and the Sonnet of Affliction,” paper given at the western meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University, CA, 5 May 1989.

18. “Word and Sacrament in Donne’s Sermons,” paper given at the John Donne Society Conference, Gulfport, MS, 22 February 1991.

19. “Of Prelacy and Polity in Milton and Hooker,” paper and symposium at the International Association of University Professors of English, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, 4 August 1992.

20. “The Structure of Wit,” paper given at The Tenth Biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan‑Dearborn, 16 October 1992.

21. “Beyond Metaphysical Wit in Seventeenth‑Century Poetry,” lecture for the Department of  English, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, 17 November 1992.

22. “Donne’s Earliest Sermons and the Penitential Tradition,” symposium at Victoria Unversity of Toronto, 27 November 1992.

23. “Donne at Lincoln’s Inn,” paper given at the John Donne Society, Gulfport, MS, 11–12 February 1993.

24. “Affliction and Flight in Herbert’s `Church,’” paper given at the National Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Kansas City, MO, 15–17 April 1993.

25. “The Idea of Order in Richard Hooker’s Literary Discourse” and “Symposium on Editing Richard Hooker,” Hooker Celebration Conference, Folger Library and National Cathedral, Washington, DC, 24–26 September 1993.

26. “Donne’s Reinvention of the Fathers: Sacred Truths Suitably Expressed,” Conference on Sacred and Profane: The Interplay of Secular and Devotional Literature 1500–1700, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 17–19 November 1993.

27. “Four Hundred Years of Herbert: The Uses and Abuses of the Texts,” Division on Seventeenth-Century English Literature (session organizer and chair), Modern Language Association, Toronto, 29 December 1993.

28. “The Structure of Wit,” Faculty and Research Seminar, English Department, University of Durham, 9 February 1994; University of Aberdeen, 22 February 1994; and University of York, 2 May 1994.

29. “Of Prelacy and Polity in Milton and Hooker,” British Milton Seminar, Birmingham, 19 March 1994.

30. “Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Frances Corbett: 1635–1660,” No Bishop, No King: from Hampton Court to Savoy Conference, Durham University, 15–17 July 1994.

31. “Representing Women in Renaissance England,” Twentieth‑Anniversary Biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, 7–9 October 1994.

32. “News from Transylvania: A Domestic Correspondence During the English Civil War,” Green College Symposium, UBC, 19 October 1994.

33. “Donne’s Art of Preaching,” presidential address to the Donne Society of America, Gulfport, MS, 18 February 1995.

34. “Sacred Truths Suitably Expressed: Donne’s Art of Preaching in the Company of Tertullian,” paper and symposium at the International Association of University Professors of English, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 August 1995.

35. Matriculation address, University of King’s College, Halifax, NS, 19 October 1995.

36. “Donne’s Re-elocution,” Faculty and Research Seminar, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 20 October 1995.

37. On editing John Donne for the Variorum, Green College, 29 February 1996 (presented also for the Department o English in March 1996).

38. Presiding officer, eleventh John Donne Society Conference, 15–17 February 1996, Gulfpark Conference Center of the University of Southern Mississippi.

39. On Donne and Izaak Walton, lecture and seminar at the University College of the Cariboo, BC, 7 November 1996.

40. “Literature and the English Civil Wars,” University of Michigan-Dearborn Renaissance Conference, 11–12 October 1996.

41. “Revisiting Spenser’s Mutability Cantos,” Renaissance Seminar, Green College, November 1996.

42. “Donne’s Common-places,” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 28 December 1996.

43. “New Resources for the Study of Christina Rossetti,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, 30 December 1997.

44. “George Herbert’s Poetry and the Theology of Praise,” Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum, UBC, 24 February 1998.

45. “Community and Social Order in the Great Tew Circle,” Renaissance Conference at the Univrsity of Michigan-Dearborn, October 1998 (and at Green College, UBC, January 1999).

46. Lectures on Canadian literature at the universities of Bonn, Kiel, Wuerzburg, Eichstaet, June–July 1999; Wuerzburg, July 2000, 2001, and June 2002.

47. Organized and chaired the Renaissance non-dramatic session for the International Association of University of Professors of English, triennial conference, University of Durham, UK, August 1998; Bamberg University, Germany, July 2001; Lund, Sweden, August 2007; Malta, 2010.

48. “Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons,” Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, 21 October 2000.

49. Session chair and commentator, “Richard Hooker: Predestination, Grace and the Sacraments,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, 2 November 2000.

50. Convenor, session chair, and commentator, “Richard Hooker: A 400th Anniversary Celebration,” St. James’ Anglican Church, Vancouver, 11–12 November 2000.

51. “Revisiting Izaak Walton’s Lives,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, 26 October 2001.

52. “Redeeming the Time”, Convocation Address, Trinity College, Toronto, 13 May 2003.

53. Session chair, John Donne Society Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2005, 2009.

54. Session chair, 8th International Milton Symposium, Grenoble, France, 6-10 June 2005; 9th International Milton Symposium, London, 7–11 July 2008.

55. “Donne and the Line of Wit,” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, San Francisco, 13 October 2006.

56. “Paradise Lost: Epic and Opera,” Department of English, University of Victoria, 16 January 2008.  Also for the 9th International Milton Symposium, London, 8 July 2008.

57. “John Donne and the Line of Wit: From Metaphysical to Modernist,” Sedgewick Lecture, UBC, 12 March 2008.

58. "Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion: Tudor Origins of the Early Modern Sphere," International Association of University Professors of English, Malta, 20 July 2010.

59. "Hearing Donne Religiously" (session chair and respondent), John Donne Society Conference, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 26-29 June 2012.

60. Co-convenor, "Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England 1520-1640," McGill Centre for Research on Religion, Montreal, 16-18 August 2012. Presentation: "John Copcot and Archbishop Whitgift: Right Cause and Faithful Obedience."

61. "The Theology of Sedition," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, October 25, 2015.

62. "Translation and Transformation in the Age of Byronismo," Regional Identities on a Global Scale: Translation, Audiences, Reception / Transnational Perspectives in Italian Studies, UBC, Vancouver, April 2, 2016.

63. "The Early Modern Hexameral Tradition," International Association of University Professors of English, London, 29 July 2016.  

64. Seminar, Richard Hooker Society, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 18-19 May 2017.