E20A MODULE THREE: NEO-CLASSICAL POETRY / ALTERNATIVE VOICES
Week 9: Dryden (1631-1700)
Lec. 1: Annus Mirabilis (1666)
Lec. 2: MacFlecknoe (1682)
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Week 10: Pope (1688-1744)
Lec. 1: The Rape of the Lock (1712)
Lec. 2: The Rape of the Lock
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Relevant Historical / Philosophical / Theoretical Readings:
The Augustan Age (1700-1745): F. E. Halliday England: a Concise History: pp.132-139
Pope Essay on Criticism
Week 11: Renaissance Women Poets: Mary Sidney (1562-1621) / Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651)
Lec. 1: Sidney Translations of Psalms (selection in Randall Martin, ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England)
Lec. 2: Wroth Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) (selection in Randall Martin, ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England)
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Week 12: Neoclassical Women Poets: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) / Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Lec. 1: Montagu "The Lover: a Ballad" / "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband"
Lec. 2: Wheatley Poems on Various Subjects (1786) (selection in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature)
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