Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.704 (Spring 2006) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Shankar Raman 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.704 Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a detailed description of assignments along with sample student work in the assignments section. An extensive reading list is also available.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course introduces students to some of the most important practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, locating them in their historical and social contexts. We will be emphasizing love poetry or amatory verse, by combining close reading of selected poems with an investigation of the contexts of English verse.