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Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals
- Instructor
- Prof. Shankar Raman
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 9 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals, Spring 2006, Prof. Shankar Raman — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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9 files
- Requirements for Paper 2 Download
- Untitled Sonnets, Anonymous Download
- Untitled Sonnet, Meghan Harris Download
- Bibliography Project Guidelines Download
- Prospectus: George Herbert’s Poetic Device and Form, Jenny E. Kim Download
- “Immortality to Shakespeare”, Meg Rosenburg Download
- “TODAY (Marathon Monday, 2006)”, Jenny E. Kim Download
- Oral Presentation Guidelines Download
- Untitled Sonnet, Meg Rosenburg Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Petrarch and Ovid
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Lecture 3: Petrarch
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Lecture 4: Sidney’s Precursors: Wyatt and Surrey
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Lecture 5: Constructing the Poetic Self
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Lecture 6: Sidney
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Lecture 7: Screening of Man for All Seasons
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Lecture 8: The English Court under Elizabeth I
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Lecture 9: The English Court under Elizabeth I (cont.)
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Lecture 10: Edmund Spenser
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Lecture 11: Edmund Spenser (cont.)
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Lecture 12: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Selections)
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Lecture 13: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Selections) (cont.)
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Lecture 14: John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (Selections)
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Lecture 15: Money, Colonialism and Gender
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Lecture 16: Cartography and Poetry: Maps and Bodies
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Lecture 17: Renaissance Neo-Platonism
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Lecture 18: Andrew Marvel
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Lecture 19: John Donne
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Lecture 20: John Donne (cont.)
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Lecture 21: George Herbert
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Lecture 22: George Herbert, Mary Wroth, Amelia Lanyer
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Lecture 23: Amelia Lanyer, Ben Johnson, Andrew Marvell
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Lecture 24: The Civil War
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Lecture 25: Student Meetings to Discuss Final Essay Draft
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Lecture 26: The Civil War (cont.)
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Lecture 27: Student Meetings to Discuss Final Essay Draft (If necessary) (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Shankar Raman, 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals, Spring 2006.
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