Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Edmund Spenser’s Speculative Method 23
5. Chapter 2. William Shakespeare’s Prophetic Recipes 53
6. Chapter 3. Francis Bacon’s “Endlesse Worke” 84
7. Chapter 4. Margaret Cavendish’s Physical Poetics 122
8. Chapter 5. John Milton’s Evental Poetics 155
9. Coda. The Ethics of Poiesis 188
10. Notes 195
11. Bibliography 231
12. Index 251
13. Acknowledgments 259