The face of the sonnet: Wyatt and some early features of the tradition / Peter Sacks
Sidney and the sestina / Anthony Hecht
Naked numbers: a curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh
Ben Jonson and the loathèd word / Linda Gregerson
Donne's sovereignty / Calvin Bedient
Anomaly, conundrum, Thy-will-be-done: on the poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips
Milton in the modern: the invention of personality / William Logan
Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland
Unordinary passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle / Alice Fulton
"How coy a figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser
Saint John the rake: Rochester's poetry / Thom Gunn
Edward Taylor: what was he up to? / Robert Hass.