Frontispiece

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

List of Contributors

pp xii-xiii

Prefatory Note

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-16

PART I - THE PROJECT OF POLY-OLBION

pp 17-18

1 - Drayton' Copious Chorography

pp 19-38

2 - ‘If the Page satisfie not, inquire in the Margine’: The Ordinatio and Mise-en-Page of Poly-Olbion

pp 39-66

PART II - ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

pp 67-68

3 - Of Albion' ‘sundry varying soyles’: The Land and its Human Occupants in Poly-Olbion

pp 69-88

4 - Bioregional Visions in Poly-Olbion

pp 89-111

5 - Drayton' Fish

pp 112-131

6 - Curls to Curled Waves: Romance and Ecomaterial Assemblages in Michael Drayton' Poly-Olbion

pp 132-144

7 - Maritime Olbion; or, ‘th'Oceans Island’

pp 145-166

PART III - THE BRITISH PAST IN DRAYTON'S SONGS AND SELDEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS

pp 167-168

8 - Locating Continuity: The Early Religion of Albion in Michael Drayton' Poly-Olbion

pp 169-187

9 - Michael Drayton: National Bard and Genealogist

pp 188-210

10 - ‘The Wonders of the Deep’: Drayton, Selden, and Deep Time

pp 211-230

Bibliography

pp 231-245

Index

pp 246-250

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 251-253