Съдържание:
  • Introduction: poetry and the public domain
  • "Famous preachers and teachers" : mediating the cause
  • The "noblest scope" : reading, writing and early modern poetics
  • "The enjoying of his own divine essence" : poetry and piety
  • "Captived to the truth of a foolish world" : poetry and the politics of tyranny
  • Conclusion: reproducing Cyrus : The defence of poesy and a cosmopolitan culture of books.