Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: The Shepheardes Calender: The Moral Eclogues -- 1 The Problem of Unity -- 2 Pastoral Poetics -- 3 "February" -- 4 "May" -- 5 "July" -- 6 "September" -- 7 "October" -- 8 Conclusion -- II: The Shepheardes Calender: The Pastoral Image -- 1 "January" -- 2 "June" -- 3 Rosalind -- 4 "November" -- 5 "December" -- 6 Conclusion -- III: Spenser's Return to Pastoral in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe -- 1 The Shepherd and His Song -- 2 Ideal and Reality -- 3 The Poet of Love's Perfection -- IV: Pastoral and the End of Epic in The Faerie Queene -- 1 The Pastoral Retreat -- 2 The Heroic Image -- 3 Vision and Quest -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.