David Norbrook is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His publications include Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (1984) and Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660 (1999).

"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and Queries

• List of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References.Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:.Lucy Hutchinson.Reading the Bible.Biblical Verse.The Divine Narrative.Politics and Religion.Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer.Note on the Text and Editing.Acknowledgements.Order and Disorder.Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3.Further Reading.Bibliography.

David Norbrook is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His publications include Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (1984) and Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660 (1999).

"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and Queries

• List of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References.Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:.Lucy Hutchinson.Reading the Bible.Biblical Verse.The Divine Narrative.Politics and Religion.Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer.Note on the Text and Editing.Acknowledgements.Order and Disorder.Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3.Further Reading.Bibliography.

David Norbrook is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His publications include Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (1984) and Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660 (1999).

"This eagerly awaited volume largely meets the high expectations readers have of Norbrook. Norbrook's edition belongs in the library of all colleges that grant a degree in English - not only because new scholarly topics include comparisons of Hutchinson and John Milton but because Hutchinson's "meditations" reveal a writer of considerable gifts. For that revelation readers are all deeply in Norbrook's debt." Choice "Norbrook's presentation of Order and Disorder is exemplary: finely judged, meticulous, and alert to textual resonance." Notes and Queries

• List of Illustrations. Abbreviations and References.Chronology. Order and Disorder: The Poem and its Contexts:.Lucy Hutchinson.Reading the Bible.Biblical Verse.The Divine Narrative.Politics and Religion.Eve's Version? Genesis, Women and the Woman Writer.Note on the Text and Editing.Acknowledgements.Order and Disorder.Appendix: 'Elegies', no. 3.Further Reading.Bibliography.