David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer

Poetic fire: an introduction by Ayesha Ramachandran, Susan Felch, and Susannah Monta

Part I: Spenser
1 Spenser's chivalric restoration: from Bateman's Travayled Pylgrime to the Redcrosse Knight
2 Foreign policy in Fairyland: Henry IV and Spenser's Burbon
3 The thirsty deer and the Lord of Life: some contexts for Amoretti 67-70

Part II: The Psalms and the psalmist
4 Evil tongues at the court of Saul: the Renaissance David as a slandered courtier
5 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 gender
8 Male lesbian voices: Ronsard, Tyard, and Donne play Sappho
9 Family grief: mourning and gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Les Prisons

Part IV: Italy, France, England
10 Translatio lupae: Du Bellay's Roman whore goes north
11 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's
Anne Lake Prescott and Roger Kuin

Afterword: Anne as co-author and editor
The joy of partnership
Roger Kuin
Anne as editor: a small florilegium
William Oram

Bibliography of works by Anne Lake Prescott
Index -- .