Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Texts xiii
6. Introduction. Metamorphic Verse 1
7. Chapter 1. Minor Epic as Genre 16
8. Chapter 2. Petrarchan Rhetoric 35
9. Chapter 3. Marlowe, The Primeval Poet 93
10. Chapter 4. Shakespeare, Poet and Painter 141
11. Chapter 5. Chronicle, History, Legend 195
12. Chapter 6. Spenser's Ovidian Epics 242
13. Conclusion. Metamorphosis as Literary System 279
14. Index 285