| CLASS # | READINGS / ACTIVITY | ASSIGNMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction. | |
| 2, 3 | Alighieri, Dante. Vita Nuova. | |
| 4 | Petrarca, Francesco. Poems and letters. | |
| 5 | Guest instructor: Diana Henderson. (Reading TBA) | |
| 6 |
Tottel. "The Printer to the Reader." In Songs and Sonnets (1557). Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. "The Soote Season"; "Loue that Liueth, and Reigneth"; "From Tuskane"; "W. Resteth Here"; "My Ratclif." Wyatt, Sir Thomas. "The Long Love"; "I Find No Peace"; "My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness." | |
| 7 |
Tottel. Songs and Sonnets (1557). Wyatt, Sir Thomas. "They Flee from Me"; "Caesar, When that the Traitor of Egypt"; "Divers Doth Use"; "Whoso List to Hunt?" Also: | |
| 8 |
Gascoigne, George. The Adventures of Mr. F. J. Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. | |
| 9 |
Gascoigne, George. The Adventures of Mr. F. J. (Cont.) Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier I. | |
| 10 |
Queen Elizabeth I. “The Marriage Speech” (Extemporaneous version) and “The Tilbury Speech” (Version in Cabala); “On Monsieur’s Departure”; “The Doubt of Future Foes”; “Ah Silly Pugge.” Ralegh, Sir Walter. “Praised be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light”; “Fortune hath taken thee away my love”; "The 21th and Last Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia.” | |
| 11 | Drafts of first essay discussed. | |
| 12 |
Herbert, Lady Mary Sidney. "To Queen Elizabeth"; Translations of Psalms 52, 89, 142. Sidney, Sir Philip. The Lady of the May. | |
| 13 | First essay due. | |
| 14 | Sidney, Sir Philip. The Defense of Poesy. | |
| 15 | Sidney, Sir Philip. Astrophil and Stella. | |
| 16, 17 | Same as above. | |
| 18 |
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene II, xii ("The Bower of Bliss"). See also Ralegh's dedicatory poem, "A Vision upon this Conceit of the Faery Queen." | |
| 19 | Spenser, Edmund. Amoretti. | |
| 20 | Spenser, Edmund. Amoretti. (Conferences on the Final Paper) | |
| 21 |
Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. See also Barnfield, Richard. Sonnet 11 in Cynthia, aka "Sighing, and Sadly Sitting by My Love." | |
| 22 | Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. (Conferences on the final paper) | |
| 23 | Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. Nashe, Thomas. "A Choice of Valentines." | |
| 24 | Wroth, Lady Mary Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilantus. TBA: Extra session to present drafts of the final paper. | |
| 25 | Wroth, Lady Mary Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilantus. | |
| 26 |
Donne, John. "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"; "The Sunne Rising." Phillips, Katharine. "Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal"; "Friendship's Mystery." | Second essay due. |