Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Breathless: Digression and Survival in 1 Henry VI
2: 'Motion in Corruption': Digression and Descent in Donne's Anniversaries
3: Marvell's Watery Maze: Digression and Discovery at Nun Appleton
4: Sounding 'Wisdom's Way': Digression and Delay in Paradise Lost
5: Parenthesis at the Center: Digression and Mystery in The Hind and the Panther
6: The Devious Progress of Satire: Digression and Vengeance in Dryden's Late Preface
7: Dislocation, Dipossession, and the Voice Come Home: An Epilogue on the 'Modern' Digression
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

Cotterill has chosen her texts carefully. Times Literary Supplement