David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer

Anne Lake Prescott is a Professor Emeritus at Barnard College William A. Oram is a Professor Emeritus at Smith College Roger Kuin is a Professor Emeritus at York University

‘The richly nuanced evocation of historical context make the essays collected in this volume simply irreplaceable.’—David Lee Miller,University of South Carolina‘This subtly witty, beautifully written scholarship ranges widely across current topics: the transnational turn in literary-cultural studies, particularly the French-English-Latin dynamic; religious Reformation/counter-Reformation; and a brilliantly resonant Spenser. A must-own.’—A. E. B. Coldiron, Krafft University Professor Emerita, Florida State University

• Poetic fire: an introduction by Ayesha Ramachandran, Susan Felch, and Susannah MontaPart I: Spenser1 Spenser’s chivalric restoration: from Bateman’s Travayled Pylgrime to the Redcrosse Knight2 Foreign policy in Fairyland: Henry IV and Spenser’s Burbon 3 The thirsty deer and the Lord of Life: some contexts for Amoretti 67–70Part II: The Psalms and the psalmist4 Evil tongues at the court of Saul: the Renaissance David as a slandered courtier5 Musical strains: Marot’s double role as psalmist and courtier 6 King David as a ‘right poet’: Sidney and the psalmist 7 The countess of Pembroke’s Ruins of Rome Part III: Imagining gender8 Male lesbian voices: Ronsard, Tyard, and Donne play Sappho 9 Family grief: mourning and gender in Marguerite de Navarre’s Les PrisonsPart IV: Italy, France, England10 Translatio lupae: Du Bellay’s Roman whore goes north11 Housing chessmen and bagging bishops: space and desire in Colonna, ‘Rabelais’, and Middleton’s Game at Chess 12 Imperfect pearls from France: Ronsard’s conceits meet Donne’sAnne Lake Prescott and Roger KuinAfterword: Anne as co-author and editor The joy of partnership Roger KuinAnne as editor: a small florilegiumWilliam OramBibliography of works by Anne Lake PrescottIndex