Richard Hillyer is Professor of English at University of South Alabama, USA. His previous books include Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin (2020), Auden's Syllabic Verse (2020), Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History (2013), Sir Philip Sydney, Cultural Icon (2010), and Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England (2007).

• 1. Introduction: The Most Contemptible Imaginable.- 2. Simply the Thing I am: The Case of M Parolles.- 3. A World of Very Great Faults: The Case of Mr Waller.- 4. A Miracle of Fear: The Case of Sr Hirsch.- 5. Conclusion.

Richard Hillyer is Professor of English at University of South Alabama, USA. His previous books include Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin (2020), Auden's Syllabic Verse (2020), Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History (2013), Sir Philip Sydney, Cultural Icon (2010), and Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England (2007).

• 1. Introduction: The Most Contemptible Imaginable.- 2. Simply the Thing I am: The Case of M Parolles.- 3. A World of Very Great Faults: The Case of Mr Waller.- 4. A Miracle of Fear: The Case of Sr Hirsch.- 5. Conclusion.

Richard Hillyer is Professor of English at University of South Alabama, USA. His previous books include Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin (2020), Auden's Syllabic Verse (2020), Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History (2013), Sir Philip Sydney, Cultural Icon (2010), and Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England (2007).

• 1. Introduction: The Most Contemptible Imaginable.- 2. Simply the Thing I am: The Case of M Parolles.- 3. A World of Very Great Faults: The Case of Mr Waller.- 4. A Miracle of Fear: The Case of Sr Hirsch.- 5. Conclusion.