Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Emerging likeness: Spenser's mirror sequence of love -- 2. The closed image -- 3. Narcissus interrupted: specularity and the subject of the Tudor state -- 4. The mirror of romance -- 5. Fault lines: Milton's mirror of desire -- 6. Words made visible: the embodied rhetoric of Satan, Sin and Death -- 7. Divine similitude: language in exile -- Index