Monday, 28th September 2015: 5:00pm, EB 104
- Welcome!
- Negotiate meeting dates for the fall semester
- See agenda PDF here.
Monday, 12th October 2015: 5:00pm, EB 104
- Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557): online here.
- Hamrick, Stephen. “‘Their Gods in Verses’: The popular Reception of Songes and Sonettes 1557–1674.” In Tottel’s Songes and Sonnets in Context. Burlington, VT: April, 2013.
- Neely, Carol Thomas. “The Structure of English Renaissance Sonnet Sequences.” ELH 45, no. 3 (1978): 359-89.
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Additionally, for those of you interested in the different approaches to digital curation of miscellanies: Michelle O’Callaghan, “Verse Miscellanies Online: A Digital Edition of Seven Printed Poetry Collections from Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England”; Abigail Williams, “The Digital Miscellanies Index: Mapping an Evolving Poetic Culture”; and Paddy Bullard, “Digital Editing and the Eighteenth-Century text: Works, Archives, and Miscellanies.”
Monday, 2nd November 2015: 5:00pm, EB 104
- Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella: online here.
- Andrew Strycharski, “Literacy, Education, and Affect in ‘Astrophil and Stella.’” Studies in English Literature 1500 – 1900 46, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 45-63.
Monday, 7th December 2015: 5:00pm, EB 104
- Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirrour (1594)
- Danijela Kambasković-Sawers, “‘Bugbears in Apollo’s Cell’: Metamorphoses of Character in Drayton’s Idea and Daniel’s Delia,” Parergon 25, no. 1 (2008): 123-48.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016: 3:00pm, EB 123
- Samuel Daniel’s Delia (1592)
- Christine E. Hutchins, “English Anti-Petrarchism: Imbalance and Excess in ‘the Englishe straine’ of the Sonnet,” Studies in Philology 109, no. 5 (Fall 2012): 552-80.
Thursday, 10 March 2016: 4:00pm, Murphy’s Pub
- Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia and Amphilanthus (1621)
- Optional: Anne Lok’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560)
- Jennifer Munroe, “‘In This Strang Labourinth, How Shall I Turne?’: Needlework, Gardens, and Writing in Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 24, no. 1 (Spring, 2005): 35-55.
Thursday, 28 April 2016: 4:00pm, Murphy’s Pub
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
- Optional: H. P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from the Yuggoth (1930) , Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin (1973), and/or Richard Jackson’s Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004)