A companion to Renaissance poetry / edited by Catherine Bates.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'Spare the Buds'; Notes; References; Further Reading; Religions and Reformations.

Chapter 4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English RenaissanceIncarnation, Sacrament, Controversy; Poetic Text/Eucharistic Context; William Alabaster's'The Sponge'; Robert Southwell's'Christs Bloody Sweate';'The Altar'Conclusion; References; Chapter 5'A sweetness ready penn'd': 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 TransmissionTudor 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'Religious Poet'; Note; References; Further Reading; Defenses and Definitions.

Chapter 11 Theories and Philosophies of PoetryIntroduction; 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 GenresEpic and Epyllion; Chapter 14 Edmund Spenser's 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 Hutchinson's Order and Disorder; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 17 The Epyllion; References; Further Reading; Lyric.

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