Loving and Thinking in Renaissance Poetry
ENGL 289
Fall 2026
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01
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This course offers an introduction to the poetry and poetic theory of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Some of the greatest love poets in the English language were contemporaries of some of poetry's most devoted theorists. Through such poets as Wyatt, Marlowe, Mary and Philip Sidney, Donne, Wroth, and Jonson, such theorists as Castiglione, Scott, Puttenham, and Bacon, we will think through larger questions about what poems are and how they work. How can poetry orient us to the ways we love, desire, and devote ourselves? What can poems teach us about the work of our own minds? What do these conversations have to do with one another? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (English) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBD
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBD |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to the following ENGL major requirements: Literary History 1, British Literature, elective. |
| Instructor(s): Retica,Rachel Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 10 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 4 | FR: 3 |
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