Fall 2007 Calendar
Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 in Grainger G18.
Numbers below refer not to page numbers, but to poem numbers. PBRV = The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse.
| 28 August | Course introduction. |
| 30 August | Petrarch, Canzoniere 1-23. |
| 4 September | Petrarch, Canzoniere 27-30, 35, 40, 45, 52-53, 61-62, 70, 90, 125, 128-129. |
| 6 September | Petrarch, Canzoniere 132, 137, 188, 190, 264, 272, 292-293. |
| 11 September | Petrarch, Canzoniere 310, 323, 332, 334, 350, 360, 365-366. |
| 13 September | Wyatt, "They Flee from Me" (PBRV 53), "Whoso list to hunt" (PBRV 54), "My Lute Awake" (PBRV 56), other Wyatt selections [.pdf]. |
| 18 September | Wyatt, "Mine Own John Pointz" (PBRV 223). |
| 20 September | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "The soote season" (PBRV 57; cf. Petrarch 310), other Surrey selections [.pdf]. |
| 25 September | Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 1-15. |
| 27 September | Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 19-20, 23-24, 35, 45, 49. |
| 2 October | Short essay 1 due. |
| 4 October | Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 57, 61-62, 69, 71-72. |
| 9 October | Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Eighth Song, 92, 106-108. |
| 11 October | Spenser, Amoretti selections (PBRV 83-87). |
| 18 October | Spenser, Epithalamion (PBRV 88). |
| 23 October | Daniel (PBRV 90-92, 231), Davies (PBRV 93-94), Marlowe (PBRV 98), Barnfield (PBRV 102-103). |
| 25 October | Marston (PBRV 125), Drayton (PBRV 138-140), Jonson (PBRV 190, 232-233). |
| 30 October | Isabella Whitney (PBRV 60), Lady Mary Wroth (PBRV 143-147). |
| 1 November | Short essay 2 due. |
| 6 November | Shakespeare, Sonnets 1-18, 19-21, 29, 40-45, 55, 65. |
| 8 November | Shakespeare, Sonnets 68, 72-73, 94, 106-107, 116, 123-126. |
| 13 November | Shakespeare, Sonnets 129-130, 132-134, 138, 141, 144, 148, 152-154. |
| 15 November | Donne (PBRV 132-137). |
| 20 November | Donne (PBRV 256-261). |
| 27 November | Herbert (PBRV 276-285) |
| 29 November | Herrick (PBRV 148-153), Marvell (PBRV 169-171, 214-218). |
| 4 December | Viewing of Dangerous Beauty. Selections from Veronica Franco's verse. |
| 6 December | Viewing of Dangerous Beauty. Final paper due. |
Final Exam Week |
Final Exam: Please bring a blue book. |