P.G. Stanwood, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, is the former president of the John Donne Society of America, with a special interest in Renaissance poetry and its continuing influence on contemporary writing. His books and editions include John Donne and the Theology of Language and also Selected Prose of Christina Rosetti. Many of his essays are collected in The Sempiternal Season: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Writing, including “Time and Liturgy in Donne, Crashaw, and T.S. Eliot. ” A wide-ranging study on “The Structure of Wit” (with Lee M. Johnson) appeared in The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry (Columbia, MO, 1995).