# Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals

Sonnet VII by Francesco Petrarch (1304 - 1374). (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Shankar Raman

### MIT Course Number

21L.704

### As Taught In

Spring 2006

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Assignments: written with examples

## 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.

## Other Versions

## Other OCW Versions

OCW has published multiple versions of this subject.

- 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats (Spring 2008)
- 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?" (Fall 2005)
- 21L.704 Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind (Fall 2004)
- 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: Gender and Lyric -- Renaissance Men and Women Writing about Love (Spring 2003)
- 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "Does Poetry Matter" (Fall 2002)

## Related Content

## Course Collections

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Shankar Raman. 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals. Spring 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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