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