Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud; and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxPart I Contexts 1Transitions and Translations 31 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn EnterlineReligions and Reformations 504 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz MontaAuthorships and Authorities 786 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141Jonathan CreweDefenses and Definitions 15411 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick CheneyPart II Forms and Genres 199Epic and Epyllion 20114 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller17 The Epyllion 239Jim EllisLyric 25018 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic]Schwartz22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe PughComplaint and Elegy 33925 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea BradyEpistolary and Dialogic Forms 36527 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376Cathy ShrankSatire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 38929 Verse Satire 389Michelle O’Callaghan30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re]appreciatingRenaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia FumertonReligious Poetry 43232 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen WilcoxPart III Positions and Debates 47135 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley36 Chorography, Map]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy]Bray39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris46 The Sublime 611Patrick CheneyIndex 628

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Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud; and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxPart I Contexts 1Transitions and Translations 31 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn EnterlineReligions and Reformations 504 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz MontaAuthorships and Authorities 786 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141Jonathan CreweDefenses and Definitions 15411 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick CheneyPart II Forms and Genres 199Epic and Epyllion 20114 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller17 The Epyllion 239Jim EllisLyric 25018 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic]Schwartz22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe PughComplaint and Elegy 33925 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea BradyEpistolary and Dialogic Forms 36527 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376Cathy ShrankSatire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 38929 Verse Satire 389Michelle O’Callaghan30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re]appreciatingRenaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia FumertonReligious Poetry 43232 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen WilcoxPart III Positions and Debates 47135 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley36 Chorography, Map]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy]Bray39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris46 The Sublime 611Patrick CheneyIndex 628

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Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud; and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxPart I Contexts 1Transitions and Translations 31 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn EnterlineReligions and Reformations 504 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz MontaAuthorships and Authorities 786 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141Jonathan CreweDefenses and Definitions 15411 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick CheneyPart II Forms and Genres 199Epic and Epyllion 20114 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller17 The Epyllion 239Jim EllisLyric 25018 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic]Schwartz22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe PughComplaint and Elegy 33925 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea BradyEpistolary and Dialogic Forms 36527 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376Cathy ShrankSatire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 38929 Verse Satire 389Michelle O’Callaghan30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re]appreciatingRenaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia FumertonReligious Poetry 43232 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen WilcoxPart III Positions and Debates 47135 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley36 Chorography, Map]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy]Bray39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris46 The Sublime 611Patrick CheneyIndex 628

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