Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Lyric Address: By Way of an Introduction 7
4. 1 Staying in Tune with Love 21
5. 2 O Brittle Infirm Creature 42
6. 3 Lyric Address in Sixteenth-Century Song 56
7. 4 An Early Modern Address to the Author 74
8. 5 Parrhesia and Apostrophe 87
9. 6 Lyrical Correspondence 103
10. 7 The Apostrophic Interpellation of a Son 119
11. 8 Guilty Pleasure 136
12. 9 Same-Sex Intimacy in Eighteenth- Century Occasional Poetry 149
13. 10 Nature, Poetry and the Address of Friends 164
14. Epilogue 179
15. List of Poems (Sources) 193
16. Index of Names 195