Don’t worry if you haven’t done the reading. I’ll give some introductory remarks about the period and then we’ll read one or two poems together.
We are meeting TODAY SUNDAY 7p.m. UK time to discuss Sixteenth Century Poetry
MEETING LINK—https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87414475789?pwd=XbMrD4SEgqUuHPFifzPAk1N0XPYgS9.1
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Essential reading
This article about The English Renaissance is a good place to start for some context and background.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, Walter Raleigh and To Celia, Ben Jonson.
Optional reading
Philip Sidney, selected sonnets: Come Sleep, O sleep; With How Sad Steps; A Strife is Grown; Who Will In Fairest Book of Nature Know; My True Love Hath My Heart.
Thomas Campion: Now Winter Nights Enlarge; Follow Thy Fair Sun; When to Her Lute.
Raleigh: The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage.
Jonson: On My First Daughter; On My First Son; Inviting a Friend to Supper.