Texts:
Luminarium
<http://www.luminarium.org>. (Lum)
Representative Poems Online
<http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm>.
(RPO)
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat
and Paul Werstine. Folger
Shakespeare Library. New
York: Washington Square, 2004.
Other materials to be provided.
23 Aug. Introduction: Characteristics of the lyric poem, specifically the sonnet, including scansion. Petrarch, “Una candida cerva”; Wyatt, “Whoso list,” “Farewell, Love,” RPO. Sidney correspondence, selections (tbp).
30 Marlowe, “Passionate Shepherd,”
RPO;
Ralegh, "Nymph's
Reply," PRO; Daniel, Delia 6 (“Fair is my love”), PRO; Spenser, Amoretti
68 (“Most
glorious Lord”), PRO; Campion, “There is a garden,”
PRO;
Wyatt, “They flee,”
RPO; Drayton, Idea 61 (“Since there’s
no help”), RPO; Shakespeare 139, 130, 64, 104, 106.
Due: A prose paraphrase of one of the sonnets or Wyatt’s “They
flee” (not “Passionate Shepherd” or “There is a garden”) listed above
(about half a page, double spaced). See a sample line-by-line prose paraphrase
of Wyatt's "Farewell, Love."
6 Sept. P. Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 71 (“Who will”), 1 (“Loving in truth”), “Eighth Song,” Lum; Wroth, Crown of Sonnets 8 (“He that shuns”), “Late in the forest” (2 after Crown section), Lum; K. Philips, “To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage,” “To My Excellent Lucasia,” Lum; Shakespeare 20, 37, 1-3, 12, 15-16, 18 (also introduction, xvi-xxviii). Textual notes on "Eighth Song," "He that shuns."
13 Examination 1. Group exercise in scansion.
20
Donne, “The Good-morrow,”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,”
“The Ecstasy,” PRO; Donne, “Break of Day,”
Lum; K. Philips,
“Friendship’s Mystery,” Lum; Shakespeare 116, 66-68, 36. "Metaphysical"
poetry v. poetry of "statement."
Due: A prose paraphrase of one of the poems listed above.
27 Donne, “Song” (“Go and catch”), “The Indifferent,” “The Flea,” Lum; Suckling, “Song: Out upon it,” RPO; Lovelace, “To Althea, from Prison,” “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,” RPO; Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress,” RPO; Shakespeare 127, 129, 131, 133-34, 138, 144.
4
Oct.
Examination
2. Introduction to student editing project.
Due: An original sonnet or other short lyric (but one of these writing
assignments must be a sonnet).
11
Donne, Holy Sonnets (“Death be not proud”),
“Good
Friday, Riding Westward,” PRO; Donne, “Upon the Translation,”
Lum;
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Psalms 58, 100, 137, 139, 150 (tbp);
Shakespeare 13, 32, 50, 52, 62, 63, 146.
Fall Break
25
Herbert, “Denial,"
“Easter Wings,”
“The Collar,”
“Prayer”
(1), “Jordan”
(1), “Love”
(3), RPO; "Jordan"
(2), LUM; Shakespeare 29, 58, 61, 82, 84.
Due: A prose paraphrase of one of the poems listed above.
1 Nov.
Milton,
Sonnets 7
("How soon hath time"), 19
("When I consider"), RPO;
Jonson, “On My First Daughter,”
“On My First Son,” Lum; K.
Philips, “Orinda upon Little Hector
Philips,” RPO; Shakespeare 71-73, 94-98.
Due: Transcriptions of stanzas from manuscripts (C, D, K) selected for editing
project.
8
Examination 3.
Sometime during this week confer with the professor about your paper topic.
15
Shakespeare 43, 55-56, 103, 109-12, 115, 119-20, 141, 145.
Due: First complete draft of paper. Sample format
for paper (with thesis and essay map on outline page, header and automatic
pagination).
Informal progress reports on editing project.
22
Due: An original sonnet (or other lyric poem if the composition you
submitted earlier was a sonnet). Submit this assignment electronically as
an attachment to an email message by 5:00 PM on 22 November.
Thanksgiving
29
Group meetings to plan for student editing project.
Due: Final draft of paper.
6 Dec. Presentation of student editing projects. Final examination.