Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FIGURES vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
5. ABBREVIATIONS xii
6. INTRODUCTION: GOOD AND BAD POETRY IN THE AGE OF THE TUDORS 1
7. Chapter One BETWEEN DRAB AND GOLDEN: GORGES, RALEGH, C. S. LEWIS AND ‘EVALUATIVE CRITICISM’ 23
8. Chapter Two SUB-SHAKESPEAREAN? THE POETRY OF THOMAS LODGE 43
9. Chapter Three ‘THWICK THWACK THUNDRING’: ON STANYHURST’S ‘UNCOOTH’ THUNDER; OR, HOW BAD IS ONOMATOPOEIA? 61
10. Chapter Four BREWING, BARTERING, AND BRICKING IT DOWN: STYLE AND VALUE IN SKELTON’S THE TUNNYNG OF ELYNOUR RUMMYNGE 82
11. Chapter Five LINEAL LONGUEURS: TASTE AND EVALUATION IN ELIZABETHAN LONG-LINE FORMS 110
12. Chapter Six FROM DRAB TO WORSE: SPENSER AND THE BADNESS OF NEO-LATIN VERSE 131
13. Chapter Seven THOMAS CHURCHYARD AND THE WORTHINES OF WALES: POET, NATION AND AUTHORITY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND 151
14. Chapter Eight METAPHORS AND HEXAMETERS IN THE NASHE-HARVEY QUARREL 169
15. Chapter Nine BAD POETRY? ‘ILE STABBE YE!’: POPULARITY, OBSCURITY, AND THE SIXAINS OF SAMUEL ROWLANDS 189
16. Chapter Ten DE-BASING THE STYLE: EARLY READERS’ REVISIONS OF MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE 210
17. Chapter Eleven A SIMPLE MISHAP AND A BORING TOURNAMENT IN THE FAERIE QUEENE 232
18. AFTERWORD 251
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 258
20. INDEX 278