English Renaissance Literary Criticism Book

	Abbreviations
	A Note on the Texts
	Introduction	1
1	The value of poetry in education	57
2	Earl of Surrey, Epitaph on Wyatt	70
3	An English rhetoric	73
4	Tragedy and God's judgements	125
5	Death of the poet Collingbourne	128
6	On imitation	140
7	A primer of English poetry	162
8	The morality of comedy	172
9	Pastoral poetry revived and explained	175
10	English poetics and rhetoric	190
11	Allegory and the chivalric epic	297
12	An apology for Ariosto: poetry, epic, morality	302
13	How to write love poetry	325
14	In praise of Sidney's Arcadia	333
15	A defence of poetry	336
16	The proper difficulty of poetry	392
17	In praise of religious poetry	395
18	Sidney's Arcadia and the rhetoric of English prose	398
19	Classical metres suitable for English poetry	428
20	Classical metres unsuitable for English poetry	441
21	Rhymes against rhyme	454
22	Imitatio and its excesses; Poetry, rhetoric, and the imagination	457
23	The moral function of poetry	469
24	A defence of drama	474
25	On pastoral tragicomedy	502
26	Against obscurity in love poetry	504
27	George Chapman, On translating and defending Homer	512
28	The faults of contemporary drama	526
29	Ben Jonson's literary table-talk	528
30	A tribute to Shakespeare	537
31	Elegy on John Fletcher	541
32	A defence of drama	546
33	Donne the renewer of English poetry	554
34	Notes on literature	558
35	The making of a Christian poet	590
36	On epic poetry	607
	Further Reading	626
	Glossary	629
	Index of Names	647
	Index of Topics	652