# Calendar

Course calendar.
Lec # | topics | key dates
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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