Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Contexts -- Transitions and Translations -- Chapter 1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry -- References -- Chapter 2 Translation and Translations -- Introduction -- Early Developments, Foreign Foundations -- Genre and Form -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty -- Echo Repetita -- Untimely Love or âSpare the Budsâ -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Religions and Reformations -- Chapter 4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance -- Incarnation, Sacrament, Controversy -- Poetic Text/Eucharistic Context -- William Alabasterâs âThe Spongeâ -- Robert Southwellâs âChrists Bloody Sweateâ -- âThe Altarâ -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 âA sweetness ready pennâdâ?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era -- Marking and Contesting Confessionalism -- Measuring the Bible -- Imagining Community -- Penning Love -- Notes -- References -- Authorships and Authorities -- Chapter 6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission -- Introduction -- Occasional Verse and Manuscript Transmission -- Tudor and Early Stuart Poets and Manuscript Circulation -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Female Authorship -- Introduction -- Authorship Studies -- The Problems of Female Authorship -- (Mis)reading Hester Pulter -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the âReligious Poetâ -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Defenses and Definitions Chapter 11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry -- Introduction -- Truth -- Function -- Form -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 Tudor Verse Form: : Rudeness, Artifice, and Display -- The Progress of Poesy: Rudeness and the Motives of Decorum -- The Practical Inheritance -- Quantitative Metrics and the Cultivation of the Line -- Puttenham, Print, and the Strophe -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form -- Practice and Theory -- A Taxonomy of Terms -- A Model of Genre -- Renaissance Genre Theory -- Renaissance Fictions of Genre -- Printing Genre -- References -- Part II Forms and Genres -- Epic and Epyllion -- Chapter 14 Edmund Spenserâs The Faerie Queene -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic -- Choosing a Subject -- Visionary Epic -- Unorthodox Theological Epic -- Material Cosmos -- Human Sexuality and Gender Relations -- Domestic Relations and Tragedy -- Politics, Tyranny, and Dissent -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinsonâs Order and Disorder -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 The Epyllion -- References -- Further Reading -- Lyric -- Chapter 18 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton -- References -- Note on Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets -- Little Sounds and Little Rooms -- Verse Form and Memory -- Broken Pillars and Void Spaces -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 âI am lunatickeâ: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeareâs Sonnet 146 References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets -- Notes -- References -- Complaint and Elegy -- Chapter 25 Complaint -- Medieval and Tudor Origins -- Erotic Complaint in the 1590s and Beyond -- Religious and Political Complaint -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 26 Funeral Elegy -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Epistolary and Dialogic Forms -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 27 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse âConversationsâ -- Notes -- References -- Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry -- Chapter 29 Verse Satire -- Satire, Satyrs, and Satura -- Anti-Court Satire and Verse Libels -- Satiric Communities -- Writing Men and Writing Women -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet -- âWell to endyteâ: Barclay and the Labor of Writing -- âWorthy ⦠travaileâ: Fleming and the Value of Difficulty -- âO carefull verseâ: Spenser, Sidney, and the Making of the English Poet -- Note -- References -- Chapter 31 Digging into âVeritable Dunghillsâ: Re-appreciating Renaissance Broadside Ballads -- Kinds of the Popular: Broadside Ballads versus Traditional Oral Ballads -- Tripping on Meter: Ballad Measure -- Multi-media Artifacts: Text, Tune, Image, Dance -- A Protean Form: Moving Parts and Shifting Aesthetics -- Broadside Ballad Heyday Subjects: A Smorgasbord -- Related Genres -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Religious Poetry -- Chapter 32 Female Piety and Religious Poetry -- Psalms and Mary Sidney Herbert -- Interpretative Biblical Poetry -- Devotional Female Community and Poetry Materiality and Circulation -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33 The Psalms -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 34 Donne and Herbert -- Poetry and Religion -- God and the Soul -- Then and Now -- References -- Part III Positions and Debates -- Chapter 35 Archipelagic Identities -- Archipelagic Entrances -- Archipelagic Spenser -- Archipelagic Arthur -- References -- Chapter 36 Chorography, Map-Mindedness, Poetics of Place -- References -- Chapter 37 Masculinity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 38 Queer Studies -- References -- Chapter 39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 41 Poetry and the Material Text -- Note -- References -- Chapter 42 Science and Technology -- The Astronomer in the Ditch: Science versus Poetry -- âReasons rendâ: Poetry and the Causes of Things -- âWritten darklyâ: Poetry and the Secrets of Nature -- Poetry and the New Science -- Poetry as Technê -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 43 Economic Criticism -- Breaking into Print: From Tottel to Spenser -- Stages to Pages: PoetâDramatists from Marlowe to Jonson -- Poet-Churchmen: From Donne to Herrick -- The Age of Milton -- References -- Chapter 44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 45 Allegory -- Conceptions of Allegory -- Allegorism in Renaissance Poetics -- Sidney -- Spenser -- Milton -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 46 The Sublime -- Defining the Sublime -- Transmitting the Sublime -- Englishing the Sublime -- The English Renaissance Sublime -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA
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