Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Contributors xii
5. Prefatory Note xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: THE PROJECT OF POLY-OLBION
8. 1 Drayton’s Copious Chorography 19
9. 2 ‘If the Page satisfie not, inquire in the Margine’: The Ordinatio and Mise-en-Page of Poly-Olbion 39
10. PART II: ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
11. 3 Of Albion’s ‘sundry varying soyles’: The Land and its Human Occupants in Poly-Olbion 69
12. 4 Bioregional Visions in Poly-Olbion 89
13. 5 Drayton’s Fish 112
14. 6 Curls to Curled Waves: Romance and Ecomaterial Assemblages in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion 132
15. 7 Maritime Olbion; or, ‘th’Oceans Island’ 145
16. PART III: THE BRITISH PAST IN DRAYTON’S SONGS AND SELDEN’S ILLUSTRATIONS
17. 8 Locating Continuity: The Early Religion of Albion in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion 169
18. 9 Michael Drayton: National Bard and Genealogist 188
19. 10 ‘The Wonders of the Deep’: Drayton, Selden, and Deep Time 211
20. Bibliography 231
21. Index 246