English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century

Table of contents

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• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Author's Note 7
• Chapter I - Cross Currents of the Renaissance 9
• Chapter II - Society and the Poet 20
• Chapter III - Poetic Theory and Practice 31
• Chapter IV - John Skelton 47
• Chapter V - Wyatt and Surrey 65
• Chapter VI - Shorter Forms of Elizabethan Poetry 81
• Chapter VII - Historical Poetry 118
• Chapter VIII - Spenser's Faerie Queene 132
• Chapter IX - Donne and the Elizabethans 161
• Bibliography 176
• Index 181