Introduction: The Manuscript Circulation of Poetry in Early Modern England -- Courtly and Satellite Courtly Culture: Folger MS V.a.89 -- The Inns of Court and London: Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) -- Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Gentry Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: British Library MS Additional 25707 -- Oxford University and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and its Manuscript and Print Sources -- 'Rolling Archetypes' : Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England -- The Manuscript Circulation of Poetic Texts at the Inns of Court and in London -- Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscripts -- Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446 -- Fugitive Sonnets in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Collections.
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"This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan era through the mid-seventeenth century, paying attention to the distinctive material, social, and literary features of these documents"-- Provided by publisher.
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