The word and the flesh in early modern England -- Beneath the skin: George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney and the experience of English poetry -- Arming the reader: Sir Philip Sidney and the literature of choler -- 'These spots are but the letters': John Donne and the medicaments of elegy -- Eating his words: Thomas Coryat and the art of indigestion -- Touching stories: Richard Braithwait, Thomas Cranley and the origins of English pornography
