Topic outline
Week 2
The Anglo-Saxon Period
Analysis of the two oldest surviving English poems:
- “Caedmon’s Hymn”
- Epic Poetry: Beowulf
Week 10
The Elizabethan Age (The Renaissance 1485-1625)
- Elizabethan Poetry: Sonnet Form
- Sir Philip Sidney: from Astrophil and Stella
- Edmund Spenser: from The Faerie Queene
Week 13
The Metaphysical Poets
- John Donne: “The Flea” and “The Good Morrow”
- Andrew Marvel “To His Coy Mistress”