| 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 |