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General Editor's Preface	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Note on the Text	p. 42
Erasmus on Skelton, 'That Incomparable Light and Ornament of British Letters'	p. 43
William Caxton on Skelton	p. 43
'The Great Chronicle' on Skelton and His Contemporaries	p. 46
Alexander Barclay on 'Philip Sparrow'	p. 46
Henry Bradshaw on Skelton and Other Superior Poets	p. 47
William Lily on Skelton: 'Neither Learned, nor a Poet'	p. 48
Robert Whittinton in Praise of Skelton, the 'Learned Poet'	p. 49
John Bale on the Life of Skelton	p. 54
William Bullein on Skelton's Satires on Wolsey	p. 55
Thomas Churchyard in Praise of Skelton	p. 56
John Grange on Skelton's 'Ragged Ryme'	p. 59
Williams Webbe on Skelton: 'A Pleasant Conceyted Fellowe'	p. 60
George Puttenham on Skelton's Metre	p. 60
Gabriel Harvey on Skelton, the 'Madbrayned Knave'	p. 62
Arthur Dent on Skelton's Immoral Works	p. 63
Michael Drayton in Praise of Skelton	p. 64
Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap' in Praise of 'Elynor Rumming'	p. 66
Humphrey King on Skelton and Other 'Merry Men'	p. 68
Nicholas Breton on Skelton's 'Ruffling Rimes'	p. 68
William Browne on Skelton	p. 69
James Howell on the Neglect of Skelton	p. 70
'A Banquet of Jests' on the Neglect of Skelton	p. 70
Thomas Fuller's Biography on Skelton	p. 71
Notes	p. 73
Edward Phillips on Skelton's Current Obscurity	p. 73
An Eighteenth-Century Critic in Praise of 'Elynor Rummyng'	p. 74
Alexander Pope on 'Beastly Skelton'	p. 75
Elizabeth Cooper in Praise of Skelton	p. 76
Samuel Johnson on Skelton	p. 77
Thomas Warton on Skelton	p. 78
Philip Neve on Skelton: 'A Rude and Scurrilous Rhymer'	p. 83
Robert Southey on Skelton's Genius	p. 84
William Gifford in Praise of Skelton	p. 86
Thomas Campbell on Skelton's Buffoonery	p. 86
Ezekiel Sanford on Skelton's Life and Works	p. 87
The 'Retrospective Review' in Praise of Skelton	p. 89
William Wordsworth on Skelton: 'A Demon in Point of Genius'	p. 89
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 'Philip Sparrow'	p. 91
Henry Hallam on Skelton: 'Certainly Not a Poet'	p. 92
Isaac D'israeli on Skelton's Genius	p. 93
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Praise of Skelton	p. 99
Agnes Strickland on Skelton: 'This Ribald and Ill-Living Wretch'	p. 100
The 'Quarterly Review' on Dyce's Edition of Skelton	p. 101
Hippolyte Taine on Skelton the 'Clown'	p. 122
'Dublin University Magazine' on Skelton	p. 123
James Russell Lowell on Skelton and 'Philip Sparrow'	p. 147
John Churton Collins on Skelton	p. 148
Richard Hughes on Skelton	p. 149
Edmund Blunden on Skelton's 400th Anniversary	p. 154
Humbert Wolfe on Skelton's Innovation	p. 163
Robert Graves on Henderson's Edition of Skelton	p. 167
W.H.Auden on Skelton 'The Entertainer'	p. 176
G.S.Fraser on Skelton	p. 186
E.M.Forster on Skelton	p. 195
C.S.Lewis on Skelton, 'The Really Gifted Amateur'	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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