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Preface to the first edition (1954)

Preface to the second edition (1962)

Introduction: Thesis ; Communications with the Counter Reformation ; Meditation: definition and distinctions ; Plan of the present study

pt. I. The art of meditation. ch. 1. The method of meditation ; ch. 2. Meditations on the life of Christ ; ch. 3. Self-knowledge: the spiritual combat ; ch. 4. Problems in Puritan meditation: Richard Baxter

pt. II. Three meditative poets. ch. 5. Robert Southwell and the seventeenth century ; ch. 6. John Donne in meditation: the Anniversaries ; ch. 7. George Herbert: in the presence of a friend ; ch. 8. George Herbert: the unity of The temple

Conclusion: the meditative poem