'Here are poems that time has forgotten, even whole authors who have slipped out of view. Victoria Moul is an ideal guide to this world of lost literature: erudite, obviously, but also radiant with wonder. She writes with undisguised relish and her translations make you want to read more.' David Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina University
Introduction; Shorter verse: 1. Anglo-Latin 'Moralising Lyric' in Early Modern England; 2. Metrical variety and the development of Latin lyric poetry in the latter sixteenth century; 3. Buchanan, Beza and the genre of the Sidney Psalter; 4. Formal panegyric lyric in England, 1550-1650; 5. Abraham Cowley and formal innovation: verse sequences, inset lyrics, Pindarics and free verse; 6. Religious and devotional epigram and lyric; 7. Epigram culture and literary bilingualism in early modern England; 8. Satire, invective and humourous verse; Longer verse: 9. Panegyric Epic in Early Modern England; 10. Latin style and late Elizabethan poetry: rethinking epylli; 11. Palingenian epic: allegory, ambition, and didacticism; Afterword.