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**Miami **** University ** **Fall 2010 ** **__COURSE DESCRIPTION: __**  Through literary recovery efforts, scholars now know that Sir Philip Sidney was one of several family members to contribute important pieces of literature to the English Renaissance corpus. While Sidney’s //ars poetica//, “The Defense of Poesy,” his sonnet sequence, “Astrophil and Stella,” and his romance, “Arcadia,” remain staples of the canon, many of the works written by his relatives have only just begun to gain recognition. In this course, students will not only be introduced to works by these emergent authors alongside those of their canonical brother, they will also have the chance to explore the “family romance” that is created by the intimate acts of intertextuality that are on display in this cluster of texts.  Sidney’s sister, Mary Herbert Sidney, penned eclogues, translated the psalms as well as two plays into English, and completed her brother’s “Arcadia” upon his death in the war for Dutch independence from Spain. While fighting alongside his brother in the Netherlands, Robert Sidney wrote a sonnet sequence that is comparable to Sidney’s renowned “Astrophil and Stella.” In the next generation, Robert Sidney’s daughter, Mary Wroth, likewise wrote a sonnet sequence, “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” a lengthy prose romance, “Urania,” and a pastoral drama, //Love’s Victory//. Mary Sidney Herbert’s son, George, was the George Herbert who wrote now-famous devotional verse in the mid-seventeenth-century. While he has certainly received his fair share of recognition, the other writers have only emerged as subjects of scholarship within the last couple of decades or so. The “younger brother,” Robert has received even less attention than his sister and daughter. And due to the traditional ways in which curricula are structures, all of these authors, when taught, tend to be assigned in isolation from one another: Sidney in survey courses, Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Wroth in woman writer’s courses, Herbert in courses seventeenth-century English literature.  Reading these authors together would allow students to explore new questions. What is the nature of family influence upon literary performance? How did men influence women and vice versa? Are the genres in which the writers worked “gendered?” How do we think about authorship when one writer “collaborates” posthumously with another? When one writer “imitates” another? Diverges from another? How do the psycho-dynamics of family relations add even more layers of complexity to ideas of authorship and emulation? Did the family members offer a unified vision of the significant cultural, religious, and political issues of their day or do they differ in provocative ways? Were they “closet republicans?” Did they all support the Protestant Internationalist cause which took Philip Sidney’s life? What were their respective relationships to love and courtly romance? To Queen Elizabeth and/or King James? Did they all enact Sidney’s famous injunction in the “Defense of Poesy” to “instruct and delight?” These and other questions would form the basis of discussion as we move our way chronologically through the texts that comprise the “Sidney coterie.”
 * Dr. Katharine Gillespie **
 * English 490X: Special Topics in Literary Study **

**__CLASS MEETS: __**M W - 2:15-3:30pm in Peabody 31. **__OFFICE INFORMATION: __** Office: #371 Bachelor Hall Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 3:00-5pm. Phone: (513) 529-1918 Email: __<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Gillesk1@muohio.edu __ **__<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">REQUIRED TEXTS: __** **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">a) **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sir Philip Sidney, //The Major Works// (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford University Press, USA (2002), ISBN-10: 0192840800.  **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">b) **//<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">, Paperback, Oxford University Press, USA (2009), ISBN-10: 0199217939. = <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">c) <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Mary Sidney Herbert Pembroke, //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">, Paperback, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2005), ISBN-10: 0866983333. =  **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">d) **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Philip Sidney (Mary Sidney Herbert), //The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia// (Penguin English Library) [Paperback], Penguin Classics; 3rd edition (1977), ISBN-10: 014043111X. **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">e) **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lady Mary Wroth, //The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth//, paperback, edited by Josephine A. Roberts, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN: 0807110744.  **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">f) **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> George, Herbert, //The Complete English Poems,// Paperback, George Herbert (Author Penguin Classics (2005). ISBN-10: 0140424555.   <span style="display: none; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">› [|Visit Amazon's George Herbert Page]   <span style="display: none; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Find all the books, read about the author, and more. <span style="display: none; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">See [|search results] for this author <span style="display: none; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Are you an author? [|Learn about Author Central] **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">NEW LAPTOP AND TEXTING POLICIES: __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Due to accumulated experience, I will no longer allow laptops in class. To those students who genuinely use them for note-taking, I apologize; you are unfortunately outnumbered by peers who abuse the privilege and use them for purposes that have nothing to do with class. Texting is also prohibited. Any student who is observed texting in class (I can see you by the way) will be counted as absent for that day with no further explanation from me. Trust me, I hate being a cop just as much as you hate being policed. But pragmatism prevails. **Note: for this class, the laptop policy can be modified/suspended as needed. The texting policy stands.** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">WORK REQUIREMENTS: __** **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1. ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">E-Criticism/Wiki-Writing: An __****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Engaged Learning and Student-Scholar Group Project **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. Because many of the texts that we will read this semester are just now entering into the canon, this course is one of the first of its kind. As a result, students will have the opportunity to help invent the contours of the discussion as we go along. Together, we will develop the course through the creation of a Wiki on Wikispaces. I will invite all members of the class to join the wiki (which I have already established) via email. This email will contain all necessary information for signing in, e.g. password, etc. After joining, students will be ready to take the next step towards participating in the construction of our “Sidney Coterie” wiki. Because participation will be both collective and individual, all students must first be divided into groups. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Group-work **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">: On the first day of class, students will be assigned to a group. Each group will then be assigned to work with an author and the section of the syllabus that corresponds to that author. The groups are titled in such a way as to suggest which author and corresponding part of the syllabus that the group will handle. The groups are named as follows: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">a) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip I (Weeks 2, 3, and first part of week 4). __3 members__  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">b) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip II (second part of Week 4, Week 5, and first part of Week 6). __3 members__ **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">c) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip III (second part of Week 6 and Week 7) __2 members__  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">d) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary I (Weeks 8, 9, and the first part of 10). __4 members__ **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">e) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary II (The second part of Week 10 and Week 11). __2 members__  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">f) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Robert and William (Weeks 12 and 13). __3 members__ **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">g) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Lady Mary (Weeks 14, 15, and first part of 16). __3 members__  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Once formed, groups will decide how to go about creating **a main page as well as side-pages on the wiki for their author**. Groups might write collaboratively or separately, with coordination occurring either in virtual meeting spaces (email) or real ones (King Library) or both - there is much room for choice when it comes to procedure, just as there is much room for deciding what to write about on the wiki (more on that below). Groups can decide for themselves as to when to begin working. The “Philip I” group will, of course, begin work immediately.   <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">After developing material for the wiki, groups will use that material to devise **a 15-20 minute presentation for each of the classes assigned to them**. The presentations will involve a **formal component** wherein the group will address the course as well as an **informal component** wherein the group will segue the class from the presentation topics into related close readings of the texts assigned for that day. Again, different groups might divide up the labor differently – a part of working as a team is making those decisions – and each group might take a different approach to formulating the format and content of their presentations. That said, while there is ample room for innovation, wiki-entries and presentations can or indeed should consist of at least some of the following elements: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">a) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Biographical information about the author and/or the author’s relationship to other family members.  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">b) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Historical/contextual information relevant to the author and/or text assigned for that day. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">c) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Summaries of relevant critical articles, book chapters, or even whole monographs.  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">d) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Commentaries upon/close readings of texts. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">NOTE: As much of your information as possible should come from books and articles rather than the internet. If we retrieve info off of the net and then simply modify it before re-posting it, we are not contributing substantially enough to on-line conversations. Instead, we are performing a somewhat incestuous “recycling” pattern that has the potential to result in content that is thin, repetitious, and possibly even erroneous. To make sure that our postings are rich with detail and the latest thinking, a bibliography of sources should accompany any written discussion. Also do make sure to credit the sources from which images and other entries are retrieved. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Segues into readings and discussion might consist of the following: **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">a) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Drawing student’s attention to a particular passage or passages within an assigned text or texts. Pointing out recurrent images or themes and then asking questions about their efficacy.  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">b) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Asking students to focus upon one particular work from among those assigned for the day (focusing upon one or two sonnets within a sequence for example) and then developing questions about the selected work or works. **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">c) **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Developing connections among authors and texts in terms of style and content.  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Because the theme of the course revolves around investigating the ways in which later writers are influenced by earlier ones – to the point where later writers are often completing earlier writers’ texts -- later groups will also find themselves in the position of commenting upon and extending work already done by earlier ones. In other words, later groups can both develop their own author pages and use the information they amass in the process of doing so as the basis for performing informed revisions and/or extensions of the work done by earlier groups on their author pages. So for example, if in the process of doing their work, one of the “Mary Sidney” groups discovers something about Mary’s completion of Philip’s //Arcadia// that one of the “Philip” groups did not come across, the “Mary group” might use that information to rewrite sections of the Philip group’s page while also developing their own Mary page. By accreting new narratives as we go along and doing so in a shared spirit of generosity, collaboration, and intellectual exchange, the wiki will develop substantively and organically. Note that this process is similar to that by which Wikipedia articles are formed. Competing viewpoints can be represented along with agreement. Debate and disagreement can be as much a part of collaboration as consensus so entries need no necessarily “correct” earlier ones, unless facts are indeed in dispute. Rather, they might (also) offer alternative perspectives and/or argumentative hypotheses. The original group is also then welcome to step forward and offer a rebuttal or further amendment of some sort. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Groups are invited to use multiple forms of media for their wikis and their presentations, e.g. images, photos, sound files, etc. For presentations, groups can use their own laptops for sharing these documents and/or they can employ the workstation in our classroom. Groups should divide up the work in ways that allows each member of the group to shine equally with the others. It is important that groups are self-governing but they are heavily encouraged to consult with me as soon as a problem surfaces. Participation in the group project represents **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">30% of the final course grade **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Individual page on Wiki __**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. As noted, contributions to the wiki will be not only group-based but also individual. For the latter, each student will be required to contribute **a page of his/her own devising** to the wiki. These **individual wiki-pages** may treat any topic related to the course themes. The pages might delve even further into one of the course’s main concerns, such as William Sidney’s relationship to his mother. Or they might add to the overall conversation by providing information on a subsidiary topic such as Elizabethan clothing styles, inheritance laws, popular dances, rhyme schemes. Or they might explore authors who are connected to the Sidney coterie but not related to them, such as Ben Jonson or Edmund Spenser. Basically, the sky’s the limit when it comes to developing a topic for the individual pages – the only requirement is that each page must demonstrate its relevance to the overall theme(s) of the course. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Like the group pages, individual pages must include substantive writing but they can also feature images, links, sound files, etc. Remember that these pages are being “published” on Wikispaces and potentially even more widely if we so choose. Think then of the audience as being broader than simply the instructor or even fellow class members. Make all the pages look as polished, professional, and inviting as possible. These are documents that you could someday place into an e-portfolio for viewing by future employers. As stated, they could, if we desire, be viewed by professors and students from other universities, including those in the UK, so make yourselves and Miami proud. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The individual’s page is due no later than two weeks after their group concludes its own in-class requirements. Obviously, the “Lady Mary Wroth Group” will have to move more quickly than others given its place on the syllabus, so individual members of that group might want to either get an early start on their topic or perhaps even to develop pages that pertain to earlier authors. The individual wiki-page assignment is worth **25% of the final course grade.** **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2) Towards the end of the semester, each student must hand in a 1-page proposal **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> outlining their plan for the final paper project (see below). The proposal must be a full-page, typed, single-spaced description of the student’s proposed topic for the final paper. The topic should represent an original approach to some aspect of the course’s themes and must be as refined as possible. Students are encouraged to discuss possible approaches with me before the proposals are due. This proposal is worth **5% of the final course grade and is due on Monday of Week 15**.  **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3) Each student will place their 12-page research essay in my office mailbox on the 3rd floor of Bachelor Hall by 5pm on Wednesday of finals week **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. This final paper project invites you to perform original work in our field of study. That work may or may not grow out of the work that the student did for the wiki. Either way, the essay must consist of an original thesis, devised by the student, and supported by research. The essay might use theory to frame a discussion of the texts but it must also include close readings that illustrate the pertinence of the theory. The essay must demonstrate a critical engagement with existing scholarship (at least two other critics should be brought into the conversation - either as scholars whose arguments stand to be revised or as scholars whose arguments offer sources of support for your own). And it must feature support for the argument that is drawn from historical, biographical, and/or other sorts of outside sources. All in all, a minimum of five outside sources is required. These sources should represent some combination of theory, historical information (gathered from books and journal articles rather than websites, etc.), and scholarly essays. **The final project is worth 30% of the final course grade**. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5) **Attendance & Participation**. See policies for both attendance and participation below. **10% of final course grade**.  **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">WRITING CRITERIA: __**  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">All writing assignments will be graded for the following:   <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1). The discussion fulfills the terms of the assignment prompt, including the page length. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2). The discussion contains an original, fully-developed and easily-discernible thesis that is located at the end of the first paragraph.  <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3). The writing is coherent, lively, engaging, and interesting to read. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4). The argument is informed and based upon a thorough knowledge of the text or texts under discussion. Examples are used and these examples adequately and appropriately illustrate the thesis.  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5). The essay is well organized. It contains an introduction and a conclusion. The body moves coherently from point to point. Paragraphs are unified and properly denote shifts in the argument. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6). The essay follows proper MLA (Modern Language Association) style for formatting, quotation, punctuation, and documentation practices. <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Late papers are accepted without penalty in the event of an illness (with a doctor’s excuse) or a death in the family. All other late papers will receive an automatic grade reduction of half a grade for each day that they are not turned in. If you are having trouble with an assignment (or anticipate having trouble), make an appointment to see me well in advance of the due date so that we can work out a solution.  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> **__PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE POLICIES:__**   <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1) **__Participation__**: A big part of being a literary critic is learning how to rap about literature with your peers. Now is the time to throw off old anxieties and take risks by offering your own insights, asking off-the-wall questions, and trying out new ideas. A classroom is a place of play and experimentation so please feel free to take advantage of the opportunity that your occupation of such a space provides. As an added incentive, you will be graded for participation on a scale of A to C.  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2) **__Attendance__**: Attendance means that **BOTH YOU AND THE BOOK ASSIGNED AS READING FOR THAT DAY are present in class**. If you are present and your book is absent, you too will be marked as absent. You are granted three excused absences. That means that you do not owe me any explanation whatsoever for these absences nor will they count against your grade. However, beyond the three absences, there is no such thing as an excused absence and that includes absences for illness of either yourself or a loved one, job interviews, sporting events, etc. The moral of the story is that you should use your three wisely because you may need them in the event of an emergency or other unforeseen developments. If for any reason you miss more than three class meetings, your final grade will suffer a letter grade deduction. Six absences means two letter grade deductions. Seven or more absences results in automatic failure of the course. There are NO exceptions to these rules. Even students who excel in all other areas are subject to this policy. This grade WILL be averaged in to your final grade. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">READING SCHEDULE __****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">: ** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">UNIT I: Sir Philip Sidney __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week One __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 8/23: Introduction: Meet the Sidneys. Review selection from “The <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Courtier.” <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 8/25: Have read **handout** containing the introduction to Elizabeth <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mazzola’s //Favorite Sons: The Politics and Poetics of the Sidney Family// and the introduction to Gary Waller’s //The Sidney Family Romance//. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Two __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 8/30: Have read Sir Philip Sidney, “ <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A Dialogue Between two <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Shepherds, uttered in a Pastoral Show at Wilton”; “Two songs for an Accession Day Tilt”; “Philisides the shepherd good and true”; “Sing neighbors sing”; “The Lady of May”; “The Lad Philisides”; and “Letter to Queen Elizabeth I, Dissuading Her from Marrying the Duke of Anjou //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">” //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(all texts can be found in //Major Works//). **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip I Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 9/1: Have read //The Old Arcadia,// “The First Eclogues” and “The Second <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Eclogues//”// (in //Major Works//). **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip I Presents. __**<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * __<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">LATE PAPER POLICY: __**

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Three __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 9/6: Labor Day – No Class <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 9/8: Have read //The Old Arcadia//, The Third Eclogues. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip I Presents. __**<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Four __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 9/13: Have read //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Old Arcadia //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">, The Fourth Eclogues plus “What tongue can her perfections tell” and “Since nature’s works be good.” **__Team Philip I Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 9/15 Have read //Astrophil and Stella//, sonnets 1 – 30, including all songs (in //Major Works//). **__Team Philip II Presents.__** <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Five __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 9/20: Have read //Astrophil and Stella,// sonnets 31-60, including all <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> songs. **__Team Philip II Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 9/22: Have read //Astrophil and Stella,// sonnets 61-80, including all <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> songs. **__Team Philip II Presents.__** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Six __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 9/27: Have read //Astrophil and Stella//, sonnets 80-end, including all <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">songs. **__Team Philip II Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 9/29: Have read Introduction to //The Sidney Psalter// and Psalms 1-43. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip III Presents. __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Seven __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 10/4: Have read //The Defense of Poesy// (in //Major Works//). **__Team Philip__** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">III Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 10/6: Have read all selections from //The New Arcadia// (in //Major Works//). **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Philip III Presents. __**

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">UNIT II: Mary Sidney Herbert __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Eight __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 10/11: Have read <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary Sidney Herbert, <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“ <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda” <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(in //Selected Works//) and Philip Sidney/Mary Sidney Herbert), //The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia:// **Book 1 - Chapter 1 & Book 2 - Chapters 1-9**. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary I Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 10/13: Have read Have read <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Philip Sidney/Mary Sidney Herbert), //The// //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, //**<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 2 - Chapters 10-20 **<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary I Presents. __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Nine __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 10/18: Have read <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Philip Sidney/Mary Sidney Herbert), //The Countess of//  //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pembroke's Arcadia. //**<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 2, Chapters 21-end. **  **//<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary Sidney Wroth’s 423rd Birthday (born October 18th, 1587). On October 17th, 1586, Sir Philip Sidney died in battle //**//<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. //**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary I Presents. __**  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 10/20: Have read Mary Sidney Herbert, //The Sidney Psalter//, Dedicatory <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Poems to Philip and Psalms 44-80. **//Mary Sidney Herbert’s 449th Birthday (born October 27, 1561)//**. **__Team Mary II Presents.__** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Ten __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 10/25: Have read Mary Sidney Herbert, //The Sidney Psalter//, Psalms 81 <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">to the end. **__Team Mary II Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 10/27: Have read Mary Sidney Herbert, “The Triumph of Death,” <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Chapter One (in //Selected Works//). **__Team Mary II Presents.__** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Eleven __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 11/1: Have read Mary Sidney Herbert, “The Triumph of Death,” <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Chapter Two (in //Selected Works//). **__Team Mary II Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 11/3: Have read Mary Sidney Herbert, //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A Dialogue Between Two // //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Shepherds, Thenot and Piers //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> (in //Selected Works//). **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Mary II Presents. __**

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">UNIT III: Robert Sidney __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Twelve __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 11/8: Have read Robert Sidney, //Sonnets and Songs//, (handout), <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">selections TBA. **__Team Robert and William Presents.__** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W: 11/10: Have read Robert Sidney, //Sonnets and Songs//, (handout), <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">selections TBA. **__Team Robert and William Presents.__**

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">UNIT IV: William Herbert __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Thirteen __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 11/15: Have read William Herbert, //Poems// (handout). **__Team Robert__** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">and William Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 11/17: **//November 19th is Robert Sidney’s 447th Birthday (born//**   **//<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">November 19th, 1563 //**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. Have read William Herbert, //Poems// (handout). **__Team Robert and William Presents.__**    **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">UNIT V: Mary Wroth __**   **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Fourteen __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 11/22: Have read <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lady Mary Wroth, //Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,// (in //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth //<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">). **__Team Lady Mary Presents.__**  <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 11/24: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS.   **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Fifteen __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 11/29: **__One-page final paper proposals due__**. Have read <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lady Mary  <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Wroth, //Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,// (in //The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth//). **//<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">November 30th, is Sir Philip Sidney’s 456th Birthday (born November 30th, 1554) //**<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. **__<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Lady Mary Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 12/1: Have read Lady Mary Wroth, //Love’s Victory//, Acts 1-2 **(handout)**. **__<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Lady Mary Presents. __** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Sixteen __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">M 12/6: Have read Lady Mary Wroth, //Love’s Victory//. **__<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Team Lady Mary __** **__<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Presents. __** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">W 12/8: Have read selections from <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">George Herbert, //The Temple// (1633) **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Week Seventeen __****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> - FINALS WEEK ** **__<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Final papers due in my office mailbox by 5pm on Wednesday. __**

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