Reading sensations in early modern England 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