The Reinvention of Love（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　In The Reinvention of Love Anthony Low argues that cultural,
economic and political change transformed the way poets from Sidney
to Milton thought and wrote about love. Examining the interface
between social, political and economic practices and individual
psyches, as reflected in literary texts, Professor Low illuminates
the connections between material circumstances, perceptions, and
ideals. Through detailed readings of the work of Sidney, Donne,
Herbert, Crashaw, Carew, and Milton, he shows how from the late
sixteenth century poets struggled to replace the older Petrarchan
tradition with a form of love in harmony with a changing world, and
to reconcile human love and sacred devotion. Donne fled the social
world; Carew made new accommodations with it; Milton revised it.
For Milton, sacred love, cut off from communal norms, verges on
hatred, while married love takes on the burden of assuaging
loneliness in a threatening world.

Preface
Introduction
1. Sir Philip Sidney: ‘Huge desyre’
2. John Donne: ‘Defects of lonelinesse’
3. John Donne: ‘The Holy Ghost is amorous in his metaphors’
4. George Herbert: ‘The best love’
5. Richard Crashaw: ‘Love’s delicious fire’
6. Thomas Carew: ‘Fresh invention’
7. John Milton: ‘Because we freely love’
8. John Milton: ‘Haile wedded love’
Conclusion