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