Introduction: Spenser, Donne, and the trouble of periodization - Yulia Ryzhik
1 Caring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne - Richard Danson Brown
2 Comparing figures: figures of comparison and repetition in Spenser and Donne - Christopher D. Johnson
3 Refiguring Donne and Spenser: aspects of Ramist rhetoric - Niranjan Goswami
4 Artes poeticae: Spenser, Donne, and the metaphysical sublime - Patrick Cheney
5 Spenser and Donne look to the Continent - Anne Lake Prescott
6 Ovidian Spenser, Ovidian Donne - Linda Gregerson
7 Cosmic matters: Spenser, Donne, and the philosophic poem - Ayesha Ramachandran
8 'Straunge characters': Spenser's Busirane and Donne's 'Valediction of my name in the window' - Elizabeth D. Harvey
9 Marriage and sacrifice: the poetics of the Epithalamia - Ramie Targoff
10 Spenser's and Donne's devotional poetics of scattering - David Marno
11 Eliot, Yeats, Joyce and the modernist reinvention of Spenser and Donne -Jane Grogan and Anne Fogarty
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