E20A MODULE ONE: RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Week 1: Introduction / Petrarch (1304-1374) / Wyatt (1503-42)
Lec. 1: Introduction:
The English Renaissance: court poetry
Lec. 2:
Petrarch Rimes Sparse: 164 and 165 (in translation)
Wyatt "The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor" / Whoso List to Hunt" / "My Galley" / "They Flee from Me" / "Patience, Though I have Not" / "My Lute Awake" / "Is it Possible" / "Forget Not Yet" / "What Should I Say" / "Of Such as Had Forsaken Him" / "Stand Whoso List" / "Mine Own John Poins"
Tutorial: Wyatt "My Galley Charged With Forgetfulness" / Ralegh "The Lie"
Relevant Historical / Philosophical / Theoretical Readings:
Bert Bach, et al. The Liberating Form: The sonnet (pp.97-101)
The Henrician Age (1509-1547): F. E. Halliday England: a Concise History: pp. 81-96
Week 2: Sidney (1554-86)
Lec. 1: Astrophel and Stella (1591): sonnets 1, 14, 21, 25, 31, 39, 47
Lec. 2: Astrophel and Stella: sonnets 49, 52, 63, 71, 90, 107
Tutorial: Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 48
Relevant Historical / Philosophical / Theoretical Readings:
The Elizabethan Age (1558-1603): F. E. Halliday England: a Concise History: pp. 96-106
Sidney "An Apology for Poetry" (in Adams)
Week 3: Spenser (1552-1599)
Lec. 1: The Faerie Queene: Book II (1591): Proem / Canto XII: stanzas 1 - c. 20 (not in NAP; in folder)
Lec. 2: The Faerie Queene: Book II: Canto XII: remaining stanzas (not in NAP; in folder)
(See also:
Tutorial: Amoretti (1595): 8, 10, 37, 54, 67, 68, 70, 75, 79, 81
Relevant Historical / Philosophical / Theoretical Readings:
Week 4: Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Lec. 1: Sonnets (1609): 1, 3, 12, 18, 20, 29, 30, 33, 55, 65
Lec. 2: Sonnets: 71, 73, 94, 106, 107, 116, 129, 130, 138, 146
Tutorial: Sonnets: 106, 129, 116, 65
Relevant Historical / Philosophical / Theoretical Readings: