Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Texts and Abbreviations xvii
5. Introduction: Scanning the Famous Flight 1
6. 1. Displaying the Fluttering Wing: The Literary Career of the New Orphic Poet 23
7. 2. Pastoral, or Proving Tender Wings: Acquiring Vatic Authority in The Shepheardes Calender 77
8. 3. Epic, or Making the Greater Flight: Enacting Vatic Virtue in Spenser's Allegory of Ralegh and Elizabeth 111
9. 4. Love Lyric, or Sporting the Muse in Pleasant Mew: Renewing Vatic Virtue in Amoretti and Epithalamion 149
10. 5. Hymn, or Flying Back to Heaven Apace: Returning to the Vatic Source in Fowre Hymnes 195
11. Conclusion: Rescanning the Famous Flight in Prothalamion 225
12. Notes 247
13. Works Cited 297
14. General Index 331
15. Spenser Index 355