Books by Ramie Targoff

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns.