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Acknowledgments and Note on Citations vii Introduction: AncientParadigms in Modern Conflicts 1 PART ONE: Two Early Modern Revisions of theMean 19 1. Donne and the Personal Mean 21 2. "Mediocrities "and"Extremities ": Baconian Flexibility and the Aristotelian Mean 48 PART TWO:Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic 77 3. Moderation,TemperateClimate,and National Ethos from Spenser to Milton 79 4. Concord, Conquest,and Commerce from Spenser to Cowley 111 PART THREE: Erotic Excess and EarlyModern Social Conflicts 143 5. Passionate Extremes and Noble Natures fromElizabethan to Caroline Literature 145 6. Erotic Excess versus Interest inMid-to Late-Seventeenth-Century Literature 170 PART FOUR: Moderation andExcess in the Seventeenth-Century Symposiastic Lyric 197 7. Drinking and thePolitics of Poetic Identity from Jonson to Herrick 199 8. Drinking andCultural Conflict from Lovelace to Rochester 225 PART FIVE: ReimaginingModeration:The Miltonic Example 253 9. Paradise Lost ,Pleasurable Restraint,and the Mean of Self-Respect 255 Postscript: Sublime Excess, DullModeration, and Contemporary Ambivalence 285 Notes 289 Index 353