Machine generated contents note: 1. Presumptive fathers; 2. Uncertain paternity: the indifferent ideology of patriarchy; 3. The childish love of Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville; 4. Spenser's timely fruit: generation in The Faerie Queene; 5. 'We desire increase': Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry; 6. John Donne's rhetorical contraception; 7. 'To propagate their names': Ben Jonson as poetic godfather; Coda: Sons.
Poetry and paternity in Renaissance England : Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson by Tom MacFaul. ISBN 9780521191104. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.