Spenser and Donne: Thinking poets

Front matter\nContents\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nNote on the texts\nIntroduction: Spenser, Donne, and the trouble of periodization\nCaring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne\nComparing figures: figures of comparison and repetition in Spenser’s Cantos of Mutabilitie and Donne’s Anniversaries\nRefiguring Donne and Spenser: aspects of Ramist rhetoric\nArtes poeticae: Spenser, Donne, and the metaphysical sublime\nSpenser and Donne look to the Continent\nOvidian Spenser, Ovidian Donne\nCosmic matters: Spenser, Donne, and the philosophic poem\n\'Straunge characters’: Spenser’s Busirane and Donne’s ‘A Valediction of my name, in the window’\nMarriage and sacrifice: the poetics of the Epithalamia\nSpenser’s and Donne’s devotional poetics of scattering\nEliot, Yeats, Joyce, and the modernist reinvention of Spenser and Donne\nIndex