LIT-418 Seminar: Poems in and out of context

Poetry in the early modern era circulated in manuscript in particular controlled social contexts. How did poems survive, get into print? What is the difference between reading a poem in manuscript, in a collection, in an anthology? Attention to manuscript circulation, common-place books, and miscellanies, and the role of anthologies in canon formation after. Case studies: the Devonshire manuscript, Sidney and Shakespeare sonnet sequences, collections by Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, and Edward Taylor, among others. Later examples, such as Dickinson, according to student interest.

Maximum Enrollment

12

Credits

1

Prerequisite

3 courses in literature

Notes

(Genre or Theory).