Introduction: poetry and the public domain -- "Famous preachers and teachers" : mediating the cause -- The "noblest scope" : reading, writing and early modern poetics -- "The enjoying of his own divine essence" : poetry and piety -- "Captived to the truth of a foolish world" : poetry and the politics of tyranny -- Conclusion: reproducing Cyrus : The defence of poesy and a cosmopolitan culture of books
