Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. The book focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement that is Petrarch's writing of the sonnet in Italian, his English successors Wyatt and Spenser with their own amatory strategies, and how Shakespeare's sonnets turn the many difficult corners for imagining a writing against the untimely. Its reach includes ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy; scripture; patristic theology; Renaissance and Contemporary poetry; and numerous language traditions...