Introduction. Delight in Disorder: The Miscellany as History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on Transcriptions vii
4. Introduction. Delight in Disorder: The Miscellany as History 1
5. Chapter 1. Plain Parcels: The Poetics of Compiling in Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes 19
6. Chapter 2. Stationers’ Figures: Mixed Forms and Material Poetics 54
7. Chapter 3. Gascoigne’s Inventions: Inference and Compiled Form 89
8. Chapter 4. These Ensuing Sonnets: Genre and Mediation After Sidney 124
9. Chapter 5. Books Called Poems: Authorship and the Miscellany 168
10. Coda. Shakespeare’s Miscellanies: The Poetic History of the Book 212
11. Notes 219
12. Selected Bibliography 257
13. Index 279
14. Acknowledgments 289