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I. Introduction. Roger Ascham. 'Of imitation': The scholemaster (book II) 1570. Richard Willes. From Poematum liber. 1573. George Gascoigne. Certayne notes of instruction. 1575. George Whetstone. The Dedication to Promos and Cassandra. 1578. Thomas Lodge. A defence of poetry. 1579. Spenser-Harvey correspondence. 1579-80. "'E.K.'" Epistle dedicatory to The shepheards calendar. 1579. Richard Stanyhurst. From the Dedication and preface to the translation of the Aeneid. 1582. Sir Philip Sidney. An apologie for poetrie. c. 1583. King James VI. Ane schort treatise conteining some reulis and cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis poesie. 1584. William Webbe. A discourse of English poetrie. 1586. Abraham Fraunce. From the Arcadian rhetorike. 1588. Thomas Nash: I. Preface to Greene's Menaphon. 1589. II. From The anatomie of absurditie. 1589. Appendix. Notes.