In basic terms, this has been a book about poetry and change, and the relationship between them. It has centered on four poets who meditate, artfully and often, on the mutability of even the firmest-seeming convictions. As Christians in post-Reformation England, Alabaster, Donne, Crashaw, and Dryden inhabited a culture of conversion, a culture that asked them – and at times even required them – to reconsider the forms in which self and soul were understood and expressed, especially the rival forms of Catholicism and Protestantism. Unlike most of their contemporaries, these four converts used poetry as part of that process of reckoning. The verse they produced – knotty, opaque, self-qualifying – registers its authors' reconsiderations, and also invites its closest readers to re-examine the forms through which they understand themselves and their place in the world. To read such poetry with care, to pay attention to its turns and returns, is to hear a call to conversion. This is not to suggest that any of these poems advocate particular articles of belief; again, a central claim of this study has been that the poetics of conversion conspicuously avoids statements of dogmatic certainty. What this poetry does, instead, is encode and encourage reconsideration itself; in Alabaster's words, it “stirs the reader up to [some] estimation of what [its author] felt at the time” of conversion. It moves the reader to imagine, to admire, and even to emulate the work of self-scrutiny and self-revision.