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Book SynopsisA history of the birth moment of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser that studies a range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert.
Table of Contents1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century
