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Tables of Contents for The Origins of English Nonsense
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
286
The origins and development of English seventeenth-century nonsense poerty
3
27
Fustian, bombast and satire: the stylistic preconditions of English seventeenth-century nonsense poetry
30
22
A short history of nonsense poetry in medieval and Renaissance Europe
52
26
The sources and resources of nonsens: literary conventions, parodic forms and related genres
78
49
POEMS
`Cabalistical Verses'
127
2
John Hoskyns
`In the Utopian tongue'
129
1
Henry Peacham
`Punctures and Junctures of Coryate'
130
7
John Sanford
`Cabalistical, or Horse verse'
137
2
John Taylor
`Poem in the Utopian Tongue'
139
1
John Taylor
`Epitaph in the Barmooda tongue'
140
1
John Taylor
`Epitaph on Coryate'
141
2
John Taylor
`Certaine Sonnets'
143
6
John Taylor
`Barbarian verses'
149
1
John Taylor
`Great Jacke-a-Lent'
150
2
John Taylor
`Sir Gregory Nonsence His Newes from No Place'
152
24
John Taylor
`Sir Leonard Lack-wit's speech to the Emperor of Utopia'
176
4
Martin Parker
`A Non Sequitur'
180
2
Richard Corbet
`A mess of non-sense'
182
2
Richard Corbet
`Aqua-Musae'
184
1
John Taylor
`Mercurius Nonsensicus'
185
1
John Taylor
`The Essence of Nonsence upon Sence'
186
25
John Taylor
`Non-sense'
211
2
John Taylor
Anon
`Nonsense fragment'
213
2
Anon
`A sonnett to cover my Epistles taile peece'
215
1
Anon
`I am asham'd of Thee, o Paracelsie'
216
1
T. W.
`Pure Nonsence'
217
2
Anon
`Nonsense'
219
2
Anon
`Thou that dwarft'st mountains into molehill sense'
221
3
T. C.
`Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepidissimum, Carmen Heroicum'
224
7
James Smith
`A Fancy'
231
1
Anon
`Interrogativa Cantilena'
232
2
Anon
`Prophecies'
234
2
Anon
`Newes'
236
2
Anon
`A Bull Droll'
238
2
Anon
`Witley's Lies'
240
3
Anon
`From the top of high Caucasus'
243
4
Anon
`Cure for the Quartain Ague'
247
4
Anon
`How to get a Child without help of a Man'
251
2
Anon
`A Bill of Fare'
253
6
Martin Parker
`A Bill of Fare'
259
2
John Taylor
`An Excellent New Medley (i)'
261
6
Martin Parker
`An Excellent New Medley (ii)'
267
8
Martin Parker (?)
`A New Merry Medley'
275
3
Anon
`A New made Medly'
278
3
Anon
`Monosyllables'
281
2
Joseph Brookesbank
`Mnemonic verses'
283
4
George Dalgarno
NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDICES
287
2
Longer Notes
289
6
Manuscript Sources
295
1
Bibliography
296
20
Index of authors of the nonsense pomes
316
1
Index of titles and first lines of the nonsense poems
317
3
Index to the Introduction
320