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

• 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.  ChronologyGeneral Bibliographies

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

• 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.  ChronologyGeneral Bibliographies

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

• 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.  ChronologyGeneral Bibliographies