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.

Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University and currently Director of its Emeritus Academy. He is the author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986; rpt. 2008), Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995), Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005), and (with Steven W. May) Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book (2014). He has edited or co-edited eleven collections of essays and written numerous articles and book chapters on early modern English poetry and drama and on early modern English Catholicism. He is currently working with Steven W. May and Joshua Eckhardt on an edition of rare or unique poems found in early modern English manuscripts.

Preface

1. Introduction: The Manuscript Circulation of Poetry in Early Modern England

Single Manuscripts in their Social Environments

2. Courtly and Satellite Courtly Culture: Folger MS V.a.89

3. The Inns of Court and London: Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998)

4. Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Gentry Family's Manuscript

Poetry Collection: British Library MS Additional 25707

5. Oxford University and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and its Manuscript and Print

Sources

Multiple Manuscripts Circulating in Different Environments

6. "Rolling Archetypes": Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England

7. The Manuscript Circulation of Poetic Texts at the Inns of Court and in London

Rare or Unique Poems in Manuscript Collection

8. Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscripts

9. Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446

10. Fugitive Sonnets in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Collections

Conclusion