Description: CONTENTS Acknowledgments Note on Editions Introduction: Gender Performance and Genre Slippage PETRARCH Inverting the Order: Laura as Eve to Petrarch's Adam "Like a Man Who Thinks and Weeps and Writes": Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus WYATT Taking Bread: Wyatt's Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms "Liking This": Telling Wyatt's Feelings DONNE Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics Sylvia Transformed: Returning Donne's Gifts "A Pregnant Bank": Contracting and Abstracting the "You" in Donne's "A Valediction of My Name in the Window" and "Elegy: Change" MARVELL "Busie Companies of Men": Appropriations of Female Power in "Damon the Mower" and "The Gallery" "Preparing for Longer Flight": Marvell's Nymph and the Revenge of Silence A-Mazing and A-Musing: After the Garden in "Appleton House" Musing Afterward Notes Index

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