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The epigram in England, 1590–1640

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

A note on the texts

Introduction

1 The classical, medieval and Renaissance inheritance

2 ‘A Curter kind of Satyre’? The epigram, proximate genres and terminology

3 The contexts of epigram composition

4 Buzzed, scrawled and printed: composition and circulation of topical epigrams

5 Epigrams in manuscript

6 Epigrams in print

7 Authorship

8 The readers of printed epigram books

9 Two facets of the epigram: names and responsiveness

10 The epigram and political comment

11 The feigned epitaph

12 The religious epigram

Coda: Harington’s ‘Of Moyses’

Appendix: The educational experience of major epigrammatists

Select bibliography

Index