Lines of Influence: Petrarch and Ovid |
1 | Introduction | |
2 | Petrarch and Ovid | |
3 | Petrarch | |
Sidney and the Contexts of Renaissance Verse |
4 | Sidney's Precursors: Wyatt and Surrey | |
5 | Constructing the Poetic Self | |
6 | Sidney | |
7 | Screening of Man for All Seasons | |
8 | The English Court under Elizabeth I | |
9 | The English Court under Elizabeth I (cont.) | |
Sidney to Spenser and Shakespeare |
10 | Edmund Spenser | Three page response paper due in class |
11 | Edmund Spenser (cont.) | |
12 | Shakespeare's Sonnets (Selections) | |
13 | Shakespeare's Sonnets (Selections) (cont.) | Essay 1 due (4-6 pages) four days after Lec #13 (by midnight) |
Donne and Marvell |
14 | John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (Selections) | Commonplace books and student sonnets due in class |
15 | Money, Colonialism and Gender | |
16 | Cartography and Poetry: Maps and Bodies | |
17 | Renaissance Neo-Platonism | |
18 | Andrew Marvel | |
Poetry and Religion |
19 | John Donne | |
20 | John Donne (cont.) | |
21 | George Herbert | |
22 | George Herbert, Mary Wroth, Amelia Lanyer | Prospectus for research essay along with preliminary annotated bibliography due |
Poetry, Place, History |
23 | Amelia Lanyer, Ben Johnson, Andrew Marvell | |
24 | The Civil War | Draft of research essay due in class |
25 | Student Meetings to Discuss Final Essay Draft | |
26 | The Civil War (cont.) | |
27 | Student Meetings to Discuss Final Essay Draft (If necessary) (cont.) | Research essay due (12-15 pages) five days after Lec #27 |