RICHARD DANSON BROWN is Professor of English Literature at The Open University ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW MCRAE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction: Good and Bad Poetry in the Age of the Tudors - Richard Danson Brown and Andrew Hadfield1. Between Drab and Golden: Gorges, Ralegh, C. S. Lewis and 'Evaluative Criticism - Jonathan Gibson2. Sub-Shakespearean? The Poetry of Thomas Lodge - Cathy Shrank3. 'Thwick thwack thundring': On Stanyhurst's 'uncooth' thunder; or, how bad is onomatopoeia? - Eric Langley4. Brewing, bartering, and bricking it down: Style and value in Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge - Andrew Zurcher5. Lineal longueurs: taste and evaluation in Elizabethan long-line forms - Richard Danson Brown6. From Drab to Worse: Spenser and the Badness of Neo-Latin Verse - Katherine Mennis7. Thomas Churchyard and The Worthines of Wales: poet, nation and authority in Elizabethan England - Andrew McRae8. Metaphors and Hexameters in the Nashe-Harvey Quarrel - Andrew Hadfield9. Bad Poetry? 'Ile Stabbe Ye!': Popularity, Obscurity, and the Sixains of Samuel Rowlands - Tamsin Badcoe10. De-basing the Style: early readers' revisions of Mother Hubberds Tale - Elisabeth Chaghafi11. A Simple Mishap and a Boring Tournament in The Faerie Queene - Katharine AddisAfterword - David Wilson-Okamura

RICHARD DANSON BROWN is Professor of English Literature at The Open University ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW MCRAE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction: Good and Bad Poetry in the Age of the Tudors - Richard Danson Brown and Andrew Hadfield1. Between Drab and Golden: Gorges, Ralegh, C. S. Lewis and 'Evaluative Criticism - Jonathan Gibson2. Sub-Shakespearean? The Poetry of Thomas Lodge - Cathy Shrank3. 'Thwick thwack thundring': On Stanyhurst's 'uncooth' thunder; or, how bad is onomatopoeia? - Eric Langley4. Brewing, bartering, and bricking it down: Style and value in Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge - Andrew Zurcher5. Lineal longueurs: taste and evaluation in Elizabethan long-line forms - Richard Danson Brown6. From Drab to Worse: Spenser and the Badness of Neo-Latin Verse - Katherine Mennis7. Thomas Churchyard and The Worthines of Wales: poet, nation and authority in Elizabethan England - Andrew McRae8. Metaphors and Hexameters in the Nashe-Harvey Quarrel - Andrew Hadfield9. Bad Poetry? 'Ile Stabbe Ye!': Popularity, Obscurity, and the Sixains of Samuel Rowlands - Tamsin Badcoe10. De-basing the Style: early readers' revisions of Mother Hubberds Tale - Elisabeth Chaghafi11. A Simple Mishap and a Boring Tournament in The Faerie Queene - Katharine AddisAfterword - David Wilson-Okamura

RICHARD DANSON BROWN is Professor of English Literature at The Open University ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex ANDREW MCRAE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction: Good and Bad Poetry in the Age of the Tudors - Richard Danson Brown and Andrew Hadfield1. Between Drab and Golden: Gorges, Ralegh, C. S. Lewis and 'Evaluative Criticism - Jonathan Gibson2. Sub-Shakespearean? The Poetry of Thomas Lodge - Cathy Shrank3. 'Thwick thwack thundring': On Stanyhurst's 'uncooth' thunder; or, how bad is onomatopoeia? - Eric Langley4. Brewing, bartering, and bricking it down: Style and value in Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge - Andrew Zurcher5. Lineal longueurs: taste and evaluation in Elizabethan long-line forms - Richard Danson Brown6. From Drab to Worse: Spenser and the Badness of Neo-Latin Verse - Katherine Mennis7. Thomas Churchyard and The Worthines of Wales: poet, nation and authority in Elizabethan England - Andrew McRae8. Metaphors and Hexameters in the Nashe-Harvey Quarrel - Andrew Hadfield9. Bad Poetry? 'Ile Stabbe Ye!': Popularity, Obscurity, and the Sixains of Samuel Rowlands - Tamsin Badcoe10. De-basing the Style: early readers' revisions of Mother Hubberds Tale - Elisabeth Chaghafi11. A Simple Mishap and a Boring Tournament in The Faerie Queene - Katharine AddisAfterword - David Wilson-Okamura