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Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-508) and index
Introduction - In principio erat verbum: the fashioning of a humanistic poetics -- - 1 - The poetics of wordplay - Encomium sapientiae: Thomas Moore and Utopia -- - Aliquid salis: narrative wordplay and Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F.J. -- - 2 - The poetics of eloquence - "Singuler eloquence and braue composition": John Lyly, Euphues, and its sequel -- - Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci: Robert Greene's fiction of wonder -- - Primus inter pares: Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia, and the poetic uses of philosophy -- - 3 - The poetics of doubt and despair - "Gallant young Iuuenall': Thomas Nashe and the revival of the second sophistic -- - O vita! misero longa, foelici brevis: Thomas Lodge's struggle for felicity -- - Conclusion - L'infinito vniuerso et mondi: the development of a posthumanist poetics
