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The study explores the work of poets writing in English from 1530 to 1667 including Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, George Gascoigne, Barnabe Googe, George Whetstone, Philip Sidney, John Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, and John Milton. I show that poets writing in the long English Reformation developed poetic strategies for amorous, political, and religious self-fashioning that embraced both Catholic and Protestant pieties. Building upon yet complicating the now familiar Protestant poetics and its iconoclastic theology, I recover what I call a poetics of adoration. This poetics of adoration incorporated the imagery of traditional, Catholic practice and its sacramental theology to rewrite Petrarchan discourse and in some cases to celebrate traditional religion. Some Protestant poets read these poems as a Catholic retreat into poetic discourse and responded by reforming Petrarchan poetry. 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