Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry.Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, and Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. He is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

• 1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry.Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, and Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. He is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

• 1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry.Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, and Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. He is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

• 1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century