index 503as writer 146–148, 159,
160, 161, 301–302, 444,
462–463, 475–476
“Written on a Window
Frame [or Wall] at
Woodstock” and “Written
with a Diamond”
(Elizabeth I) 444,
475–476
Ellesmere manuscript 102
Emaré 243, 344, 346
emblem 139, 162, 197, 4 01, 464
encomium 13, 162, 304
Encomium of Lady Pecunia, The
(Barnfield) 74
endecasillabo 85
Eneados (Douglas) 148
England’s Helicon 120, 293,
309, 310
English and Scottish Popular
Ballads (Child) 70, 72, 87
English Chaucerians 162–163
English sonnet 163, 420. See
also Spenserian sonnet
by Barnfield (Richard) 134
by Constable (Henry) 437
by Daniel (Samuel) 142
by Drayton (Michael) 223,
224, 225
by Greville (Sir Fulke) 98
quatorzains in 335
by Raleigh (Sir Walter) 268,
416
by Shakespeare (William)
163, 188, 358, 361–364,
373, 377, 379–381, 384,
390, 401, 421
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 35,
39–41, 48, 50, 58, 59, 62,
109, 188, 335
by Surrey (Henry Howard)
4, 34, 163, 255, 355, 429
volta in 452
by Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 163,
283, 479
enjambment 65, 145, 163
“Entre ses mains & en son
plein” (Mary, Queen of Scots).
See Casket Letters: Sonnet 2
(Mary, Queen of Scots)
“Enuious wits, what hath bene
mine offence” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
104 (Sidney)
envoi (envoy) 70, 103, 121,
163, 164, 165, 167, 187, 191,
354–355, 443
“Envoy to Bukton” (Chaucer)
163, 164–165
“Envoy to Scogan” (Chaucer)
163, 164, 165
eorls 435
epic 113, 114, 165–166. See
also epyllion
epic romance 346
epigram 89, 146, 162, 166,
282, 293, 296, 419
“Epitaphe on Sir Philip Sidney,
An” (James VI) 166
Epithalamion (Spenser) 11, 13,
16, 167–168, 421, 424
epithalamium 71
epode 427
epyllion 168, 217, 265
“Erthe toc of the Erthe with
woh” 127, 168
estates satire 122, 124, 207,
283, 351–352, 435
“Et maintenant elle commence à
voir” (Mary, Queen of Scots).
See Casket Letters: Sonnet 3
(Mary, Queen of Scots)
eucrasia 191
“Even now that Care” (Herbert)
168–169, 403, 404, 444
“Ever living God the mighty
lord, The” (Herbert). See
Sidneian Psalms: Psalm 50
(Herbert)
exegesis 23, 102, 169–170,
193, 216, 260, 323, 462
exemplum 170
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 100,
170, 195, 292, 305–306,
334, 469
in Cleanness 119–120
by Gower (John) 34
by Langland (William) 320
by Lydgate (John) 34
by Mannyng (Robert) 214
by Shakespeare (William)
337
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 142
Exeter Book 26, 27, 145, 170–
171, 239, 349, 353, 456, 466,
470, 476, 477
“Expense of spirit in a waste of
shame, Th’“ (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 129F
fable 172. See also beast fable
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 100,
101–102, 172, 343
as exemplum 170
by Henryson (Robert) 172,
215, 278–282
by Marie de France 76,
172, 264, 292, 343
by Spenser (Edmund) 402
Fables (Aesop) 76, 118, 172,
257, 273, 278, 279, 292, 468
fabliau 172–173, 272, 273
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 100,
101, 173, 204, 273, 275,
276, 341, 342, 442
“Get up and bar the door”
210Faerie Queene, The (Spenser)
173–186, 425
alexandrine in 5
as allegorical narrative 8
Amoretti compared to 12,
13, 16
on Arthur 29, 31
author’s progress on 11, 22,
23, 424
canto in 103, 424
carpe diem in 104
chivalry in 116, 178
on Elizabeth I 22, 23, 31,
133, 161, 173, 174, 176,
184, 268, 424, 444
as epic 166, 424
Raleigh (Sir Walter) on
268–269, 424
on seven deadly sins 179,
356
on Spanish Armada 423
on virtues 452
Faerie Queene, The: Book 1
(Spenser) 173, 174, 175,
178–181, 184
Faerie Queene, The: Book 2
(Spenser) 174, 175–176,
181–184
Faerie Queene, The: Book 3
(Spenser) 174, 176–177,
184–186
Faerie Queene, The: Book 4
(Spenser) 174, 177
Faerie Queene, The: Book 5
(Spenser) 174, 177–178
Faerie Queene, The: Book 6
(Spenser) 174, 178
Faerie Queene, The: Book 7
(Spenser) 174
“Fair is my love, and cruel as
she’s fair” (Daniel). See Delia:
Sonnet 6 (Daniel)
Fair Youth (Fair Lord). See
Lovely Boy
Fall of Princes, The (Lydgate) 89,
101, 186–187, 191, 258, 277
“Farewell: thou art too dear for
my possessing” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 87
“Farewell False Love” (Raleigh)
187
“Farewell Love, and all thy laws
for ever!” (Wyatt) 188, 479
femineus amor 254
feminist critics
on Chaucer (Geoffrey)
90, 91, 92, 102, 263,
275–276, 342, 442, 468,
469–470
on Floris and Blauncheflur
190
on Gower (John) 125
on Judith 233
on Langland (William) 328on Marie de France 83, 264
on Renaissance 157
on Shakespeare (William)
449
on Sidney (Sir Philip) 289
on Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight 412
on Skelton (John) 318
on Spenser (Edmund) 181
on “The Wife’s Lament” 471
on “Wulf and Eadwacer”
478
on Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 146
feudalism 156, 290, 323, 326.
See also three estates
feudal oaths 131, 188–189,
240, 290
“Fie, school of Patience, fie,
your lesson is” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 56
(Sidney)
Field, Richard 448
fili 155
First Examynacyon, The (Askew)
71
Fled Bricrenn 154
Floris and Blauncheflur 189–
190, 255, 346
Flower and the Leaf, The 152
“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my
death-wound, fly” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
20 (Sidney)
flyting 190, 287
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy,
The 153, 190
Flyting with Kennedy, The 153
folk ballads. See ballad (folk
ballads)
formal alliterative poems 9–10,
11
Formulary (Hoccleve) 219
Fortune 190–191
Fortunes Stabilnes (Charles
d’Orléans) 191
“Forward violet thus did I
chide, The” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 99
four humors 54, 191–192, 206,
254, 291, 380–381
fourteeners 192
“Foweles in the Frith” 192–
193, 272
“Fox and the Wolf, The”
(Henryson). See Morall Fabillis:
“The Fox and the Wolf”
(Henryson)
frame narrative 87, 99, 100,
111, 193, 204
Francis I (king of France) 419,
428
“Franklin’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
87, 100, 101, 121, 193–196,
416