Johnathan H. Pope, Ph.D. (2009), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus. He has published articles on mortalism, Shakespeare and film, Renaissance anatomy, and Francis Quarles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDedication and Prefatory PoemsCanto ICanto IICanto IIICanto IIIICanto VCanto VICanto VIICanto VIIICanto IXCanto XCanto XICanto XIIFrancis Quarles, “To my deare friend, the SPENCER of this age”Index

“Pope’s is an edition of The Purple Island that I hope will introduce a generation of new readers, especially graduate students in nondramatic Renaissance literature, to this important yet understudied poem.”Mark Bayer, University of Texas at San Antonio. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 836-837.