Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

William Baldwin's The Canticles, or Balades of Salomon: The Shaping of History, Sexuality and Subsequent English Poetry

Canticles, Baldwin and Spenser's Amoretti

Canticles as Erased Convention in Venus and Adonis

The Spenserian Canticles of Robert Aylett: The Protestant Tradition Continues

Ranter Sexual Politics: Canticles in the England of 1650

Adam's Revised Rant with Eve

Conclusion

List of Works Cited

Index