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| 1 | | | | Introduction. | | | | | | |
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| 2, 3 | | | | Alighieri, Dante. Vita Nuova. | | | | | | |
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| 4 | | | | Petrarca, Francesco. Poems and letters. | | | | | | |
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| 5 | | | | Guest instructor: Diana Henderson. (Reading TBA) | | | | | | |
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| 6 | | | | Tottel. "The Printer to the Reader." In Songs and Sonnets (1557). Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. "The Soote Season"; "Loue that Liueth, and Reigneth"; "From Tuskane"; "W. Resteth Here"; "My Ratclif." Wyatt, Sir Thomas. "The Long Love"; "I Find No Peace"; "My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness." | | | | | | |
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| 7 | | | | Tottel. Songs and Sonnets (1557). Wyatt, Sir Thomas. "They Flee from Me"; "Caesar, When that the Traitor of Egypt"; "Divers Doth Use"; "Whoso List to Hunt?" Also:
Wyatt. "Farewell, Love"; "My Lute Awake!"; "In Spain"; "Madam, Withouten Many Words." (See also the "Answer from a Lady" in notes) | | | | | | |
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| 8 | | | | Gascoigne, George. The Adventures of Mr. F. J. Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. | | | | | | |
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| 9 | | | | Gascoigne, George. The Adventures of Mr. F. J. (Cont.) Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier I. | | | | | | |
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| 10 | | | | Queen Elizabeth I. “The Marriage Speech” (Extemporaneous version) and “The Tilbury Speech” (Version in Cabala); “On Monsieur’s Departure”; “The Doubt of Future Foes”; “Ah Silly Pugge.” Ralegh, Sir Walter. “Praised be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light”; “Fortune hath taken thee away my love”; "The 21th and Last Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia.” | | | | | | |
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| 11 | | | | Drafts of first essay discussed. | | | | | | |
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| 12 | | | | Herbert, Lady Mary Sidney. "To Queen Elizabeth"; Translations of Psalms 52, 89, 142. Sidney, Sir Philip. The Lady of the May. | | | | | | |
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| 13 | | | | | | | | First essay due. | | |
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| 14 | | | | Sidney, Sir Philip. The Defense of Poesy. | | | | | | |
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| 15 | | | | Sidney, Sir Philip. Astrophil and Stella. | | | | | | |
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| 16, 17 | | | | Same as above. | | | | | | |
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| 18 | | | | Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene II, xii ("The Bower of Bliss"). See also Ralegh's dedicatory poem, "A Vision upon this Conceit of the Faery Queen." | | | | | | |
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| 19 | | | | Spenser, Edmund. Amoretti. | | | | | | |
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| 20 | | | | Spenser, Edmund. Amoretti. (Conferences on the Final Paper) | | | | | | |
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| 21 | | | | Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. See also Barnfield, Richard. Sonnet 11 in Cynthia, aka "Sighing, and Sadly Sitting by My Love." | | | | | | |
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| 22 | | | | Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. (Conferences on the final paper) | | | | | | |
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| 23 | | | | Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets.
Nashe, Thomas. "A Choice of Valentines." | | | | | | |
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| 24 | | | | Wroth, Lady Mary Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilantus.
TBA: Extra session to present drafts of the final paper. | | | | | | |
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| 25 | | | | Wroth, Lady Mary Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilantus. | | | | | | |
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| 26 | | | | Donne, John. "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"; "The Sunne Rising." Phillips, Katharine. "Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal"; "Friendship's Mystery." | | | | Second essay due. | | |
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