The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England

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Half Title
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Title Page
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Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Transcription Protocols
Acknowledgments
Preface
	Notes
Archives, Manuscript Sigla, and Other Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The Manuscript Circulation of Poetry in Early Modern England
	Manuscript Poetry in Different Environments
	Death, Sex, and Politics in Manuscript Verse
	Shorter Poetry in Manuscript Collections
	Women and the Manuscript System
	Scribes, Compilers and the Freedom of the Manuscript System
	Poems Copied from Printed Books
	Poems Popular in the Manuscript System
	Conclusion
	Notes
Part I: Single Manuscripts in Their Social Environments
2. Courtly and Satellite Courtly Culture: Folger MS V.a.89
	The Poem Ascribed to Shakespeare
	Anonymous Rare or Unique Poems in the Cornwallis Collection
	Conclusion
	Appendix (First-line index of poems in Folger MS V.a.89, with authorship, page number, and appearances in other manuscripts)
	Notes
3. The Inns of Court and London: Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (BL MS Add. 33998)
	BL MS Add. 33998 as a Poetic Collection
	Chute's Collection and its Social Environment
	Rare or Unique Poems in the Anthology
	Bawdy, Religious and Political Verse in the Collection
	Conclusion
	Notes
4. Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Gentry Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: British Library MS Additional 25707
	Sir William Skipwith in His Different Environments
	The Sections of the Collection and Its Scribal Hands
	The Collection and Its Leicestershire Connections
	The Skipwith Collection and the Broad System of Manuscript Transmission
	The Skipwith Manuscript and Religiopolitical Conflict
	Rare or Unique Poems in the Collection
	Poetry by the Compilers
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. Oxford University and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and its Manuscript and Print Sources
	The Print Sources of the Manuscript
	V.a.345 and its Manuscript Sources
	Rare or Unique Poems in V.a.345
	Conclusion
	Appendix (First-lines of apparently unique poems contained in Folger MS V.a.345)
	Notes
Part II: Multiple Manuscripts Circulating in Different Environments
6. "Rolling Archetypes": Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England
	The Circulation and Collecting of Poems in the University Setting
	University Poems Spreading to London
	Sociocultural and Political Connections Between the University and London
	Conclusion
	Appendix 1 (Overlap of Westminster Abbey Lib. MS 41, BL MSS Sloane 1792 and Add. 30982, and Folger MS V.a.170)
	Appendix 2 (Overlap of BL MS Harley 6917 (partial), Harley 6918, BL MS Add. 58215, and Bod. MS Eng. Poet. c.50)
	Appendix 3 (Overlap of Harv. MS Eng. 626, Bod. MS Eng. Poet. c.50, Folger MS V.a.96, and Hunt. MS HM 172—italicized first lines indicate poems not in H626)
	Notes
7. The Manuscript Circulation of Poetic Texts at the Inns of Court and in London
	Manuscript Collections with Inns Provenance
	Inns Poets
	The Cultural Milieu of the Inns
	Inns Verse and the Political World
	Conclusion
	Notes
Part III: Rare or Unique Poems in Manuscript Collections
8. Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscripts
	Comic or Satiric Epigrams and Epitaphs and Other Witty Verse
	Polemical and Political Poems
	Occasional Poems to Family Members, Lovers, Friends, Patrons, and Patronesses
	Site-Specific Poems
	Competitive Versifying and Literary Appropriations
	Verse with Ethical or Religious Intent
	Songs
	Translations and Paraphrases
	Poetic bricolage
	Metapoetic Poems
	Conclusion
	Notes
9. Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446
	Sonnets in the Collection
	Poems Influenced by the Poetry of Donne
	Jonson and Jonsonian Verse in the Collection
	Answer Poetry and Other Competitive Verse in the Collection
	Other Social and Occasional Verse in Sloane 1446
	Amorous and Bawdy Verse in Sloane 1446
	Political Poems in Sloane 1446
	Conclusion
	Notes
10. Fugitive Sonnets in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Collections
	Defining the Sonnet Form
	Sonnets in the Shakespearean Form
	The Various Uses of the Sonnet
	Palinodes and Other Anti-Love Poems
	Sonnets as Verse Epistles and Poems of Complement
	Funerary Sonnets
	Polemical and Didactic Sonnets
	Religious Sonnets
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
	Note
Bibliography
Index