Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Misreading Spenser; 1 To Fashion a Gentleman or Noble Person: Xenophon and English Protestant Poetics; 2 Spenser's 'Gallery of Pictures'; 3 'Bad Art' or Good Readers? Spenserian Ekphrasis; 4 Making a Virtue of Courtesy; Epilogue: Civil Conversation after Cyrus; Bibliography; Index