Cover -- JOHN SKELTON: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- 1 WILLIAM CAXTON on Skelton, c. 1490 -- 2 ERASMUS on Skelton, 'that incomparable light and ornament of British letters', c. 1499 -- 3 ALEXANDER BARCLAY on 'Philip Sparrow', 1509 -- 4 'The Great Chronicle of London' on Skelton and his contemporaries, c. 1510 -- 5 HENRY BRADSHAW on Skelton and other superior poets, c. 1513 -- 6 WILLIAM LILY on Skelton: 'neither learned, nor a poet', c. 1519 -- 7 ROBERT WHITTINTON in praise of Skelton, the 'learned poet', 1519 -- 8 JOHN BALE on the life of Skelton, 1557 -- 9 WILLIAM BULLEIN on Skelton's satires on Wolsey, 1564 -- 10 THOMAS CHURCHYARD in praise of Skelton, 1568 -- 11 JOHN GRANGE on Skelton's 'ragged ryme', 1577 -- 12 WILLIAM WEBBE on Skelton: 'a pleasant conceyted fellowe', 1586 -- 13 GEORGE PUTTENHAM on Skelton's metre, 1589 -- 14 GABRIEL HARVEY on Skelton, the 'madbrayned knave', c. 1573-80, 1592 -- 15 ARTHUR DENT on Skelton's immoral works, c. 1590 -- 16 MICHAEL DRAYTON in praise of Skelton, c. 1600, 1606, 1619 -- 17 'Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cappe' in praise of 'Elynor Rumming', 1609 -- 18 NICHOLAS BRETON on Skelton's 'ruffling rimes', 1612 -- 19 HUMPHREY KING on Skelton and other 'merry men', 1613 -- 20 WILLIAM BROWNE on Skelton, 1614 -- 21 HENRY PEACHAM on Skelton's unmerited reputation, 1622 -- 22 'A Banquet of Jests' on the neglect of Skelton, 1639 -- 23 JAMES HOWELL on the neglect of Skelton, 1655 -- 24 THOMAS FULLER's biography of Skelton, 1662 -- 25 EDWARD PHILLIPS on Skelton's current obscurity, 1675 -- 26 An eighteenth-century critic in praise of 'Elynor Rummyng', 1718 -- 27 ALEXANDER POPE on 'beastly Skelton', 1737 -- 28 ELIZABETH COOPER in praise of Skelton, 1737 -- 29 SAMUEL JOHNSON on Skelton, 1755.

30 THOMAS WARTON on Skelton, 1778 -- 31 PHILIP NEVE on Skelton: 'a rude and scurrilous rhymer', 1789 -- 32 ROBERT SOUTHEY on Skelton's genius, 1814 -- 33 WILLIAM GIFFORD in praise of Skelton, 1816 -- 34 THOMAS CAMPBELL on Skelton's buffoonery, 1819 -- 35 EZEKIEL SANFORD on Skelton's life and works, 1819 -- 36 The 'Retrospective Review' in praise of Skelton, 1822 -- 37 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH on Skelton: 'a demon in point of genius', 1823, 1833 -- 38 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE on 'Philip Sparrow', 1827, 1836 -- 39 HENRY HALLAM on Skelton: 'certainly not a poet', 1837 -- 40 ISAAC D'ISRAELI on Skelton's genius, 1840 -- 41 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING in praise of Skelton, 1842 -- 42 AGNES STRICKLAND on Skelton: 'this ribald and ill-living wretch', 1842 -- 43 The 'Quarterly Review' on Dyce's edition of Skelton, 1844 -- 44 HIPPOLYTE TAINE on Skelton the 'clown', 1863 -- 45 'Dublin University Magazine' on Skelton, 1866 -- 46 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL on Skelton and 'Philip Sparrow', 1875, 1889 -- 47 JOHN CHURTON COLLINS on Skelton, 1880 -- 48 RICHARD HUGHES on Skelton, 1924 -- 49 EDMUND BLUNDEN on Skelton's 400th anniversary, 1929 -- 50 HUMBERT WOLFE on Skelton's innovation, 1929 -- 51 ROBERT GRAVES on Henderson's edition of Skelton, 1931 -- 52 W. H. AUDEN on Skelton 'the entertainer', 1935 -- 53 G. S. FRASER on Skelton, 1936 -- 54 E. M. FORSTER on Skelton, 1950 -- 55 C. S. LEWIS on Skelton, 'the really gifted amateur', 1954 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.