General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Barbarous Tongues: The ideology of poetic form (Richard Helgerson) 3. 'The Perfecte Paterne of a Poet': The poetics of courtship in The Shepeardes Calender ( Louis Montrose ). 4. Spenser's Complaints ( Richard Ramuss ) 5. Spenser's Poetics: The Poem's two bodies ( David Lee Miller ).

6. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the destruction of the Bower of Bliss ( Stephen Greenblatt ) 7. Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous discourse in Book III of the Faerie Queene ( Lauren Silberman ) 8. 'Endlesse Worke' ( Jonathan Goldberg ) 9. Praise and Defence of the Queen in The Faerie Queene, Book V (Pamela Joseph Benson ) 10. The 'Sacred Hunger of Ambitious Minds: Spenser's savage religion ( Andrew Hadfield ) 11. The Colonization of Language: Narrative strategies in The Faerie Queene, Book VI ( Anne Fogarty ) 12. Mapping Mutability: or Spenser's Irish Plot ( Julia Reinhard Lupton ).

Notes on author Further reading Indext;I>Andrew Hadfield) 11. The Colonization of Language: Narrative strategies in The Faerie Queene, Book VI ( Anne Fogarty ) 12. Mapping Mutability: or Spenser's Irish Plot ( Julia Reinhard Lupton ). Notes on author Further reading Index.