Frontmatter -- Preface. The Calvinist Temper in English Poetry -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. The Calvinist Temper -- PART ONE: The Patterns of Calvinism: The Sixteenth Century -- PART TWO: The Patterns in Poetry: 1580-1700 -- PART THREE: Religious Metaphor in the Eighteenth Century: Watts, Smart and Cowper -- PART FOUR: The Romantic Age: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Byron -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index