Stephen Guy-Bray [https://english.ubc.ca/profile/stephen-guy-bray/] joins Close Readings to talk about one of the most beautiful sonnets in the English language, George Herbert's "Prayer (I) [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44371/prayer-i]." Stephen's most recent book is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry [https://anthempress.com/line-endings-in-renaissance-poetry-pdf] (Anthem, 2022). In the episode we also refer in passing to a recent academic article of his called "Notes on the Couplet in the Sonnet [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2022.2091651]" and to a recent talk he gave on "Aboutness in Shakespeare's Poetry [https://youtu.be/xkVqKUHjVVY]." Follow Stephen on Twitter here [https://twitter.com/SGUYBRAY]. Stephen Guy-Bray is a professor at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of four earlier monographs: Shakespeare and Queer Representation [https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-and-Queer-Representation/Guy-Bray/p/book/9781138389618] (Routledge, 2020), Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From [https://utorontopress.com/9781442640603/against-reproduction/] (Toronto, 2009), Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic [https://utorontopress.com/9780802092038/loving-in-verse/] (Toronto, 2006), and Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature [https://utorontopress.com/9780802036773/homoerotic-space/] (Toronto, 2002).  Please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear, and make sure you're signed up for my newsletter [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/] to stay up to date on our plans.