Table of Contents

1. Reading the Poetry of the Sixteenth Century. 2. Language, the Poet and the World. 3. Erected Wit and Infected Will: Cultural Contraction in the Lyric. 4. A Century of Court Poets: Dunbar, Wyatt, Ralegh, Greville. 5. The Sidneys and Their Circle. 6. Spenser and The Faerie Queene. 7. The Poetry of Shakespeare and the Early Donne. 8. Gendering the Muse: The Emergence of Women's Poetry. 9. Conclusion Reopening the Canon. Chronology
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Gary F. Waller

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"Gary Waller has produced a lively study of sixteenth-century poetry which should provoke deep and careful thought from its readers." "Notes and Queries