Dora Greenwell was among the most highly praised of the women poets whose careers flourished just after Elizabeth Barrett Browning's death. She is often grouped with Jean Ingelow and Christina Rossetti, and like them she worked in the traditions of religious and love lyrics, exploring and redefining their limits. New anthologies of nineteenth-century women's poetry published in the 1990s have formed a canon of Greenwell's work that shows her stylistic range, from the sentimental to the political to the metaphysical. She made her literary reputation, however, with prose writings that articulate an eclectic Protestantism, anticipating Christian existentialism in their concern with modern struggles for faith. These writings reveal a vigorous, cultivated mind attuned to intellectual and social change. They also help to illuminate inconsistencies in Greenwell's poetic craft. Late in her career, in Liber Humanitatis: A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Spiritual and Social Life (1875), she...