• Part 1 General introduction: Taylor's life and works; the literary and devotional tradition of "Holy living"; Taylor's use of religious and classical literature; style; the reception of "Holy living" and "Holy dying". Part 2 Textual introduction: the text; the transmission of the text; the present edition; bibliographical description of editions collated. Part 3 "Holy living". Emendation of accidentals. Commentary. Bibliography. Index.

`It is P.G.Stanwood's inestimable service to have enabled readers to appreciate the richness of Taylor's text and of his rhetorical stratagies by granting them for the first time full access to Taylor's cultural store. To the benefit of a carefully edited text he adds detailed and comprehensive bibliographical annotation for all Taylor's allusions, ...'Christina Malcolmson, Yearbook of English Studies.