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1 Prof. Harris 1 Date Class Assignments (Readings to be completed by date listed and are subject to change. Listening assignments are marked with ) Introduction and formal/theoretical foundations T Jan. 17 F Jan. 20 Introduction, overview Poetry: heard, written, and set to music The work of poetics Rudiments of poetry * Discuss syllabus and aural log, class procedures Love Story by Kimberly Johnson Sigh No More, Ladies by William Shakespeare Jonathan Culler: chapter 4 of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction John Hollander: Foreword to Well-Tun d Word by Elise Bickford Jorgens Bring a poem of your choice T Jan. 24 Rudiments of poetry, cont. Poetry sampling: Alliterative Arthur, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, Milton practice analyzing with meter and choose one poem of your own Medieval Music and Poetry F Jan. 27 T Jan. 31 History of English language and verse Pre-Norman era Rudiments of music * Sign-up for class lesson Norman conquest, development of English language Beginning of western music notation, chant Troubadour/trouvère songs Chaucer and context: plague, Ars Nova, instruments Scansion practice Chant Troubadour/trouvère songs, riddle songs, Listening practice Geoffrey Chaucer: The Miller s Tale Music and poetic vocabulary Machaut, Listening practice

2 Prof. Harris 2 F Feb. 3 T Feb. 7 F Feb. 10 Middle English, inheriting literary forms Review and practice TEST on rudiments Transition to early modern James Anderson Winn: from Unsuspected Eloquence Wyatt Court and courtly love Coteries and sonnets What is lyric? Middle English lyrics Sumer is icumen in and others Francesco Petrarch Renaissance polyphony Sir Thomas Wyatt: translations of Petrarch and original poems Heather Dubrow: from The Challenges of Orpheus excerpts, Culler, chapter 5 in A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory Henry VIII songs, ballads Elizabethan Era: Emerging Genres and Conversations T Feb. 14 F Feb. 17 Elizabeth Virgin Queen, succession, entertainments Political favor and patronage Paper tips, about writing Sonnets introduce sequences, sample Sidney and Spenser Travel to the Continent Copernicism, music, religion DUE: First aural log Elizabeth: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury Edmund Spenser: Selections from Book 1 of Fairie Queene, Shepherdes Calender Oriana, madrigals Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella Spenser: Amoretti, Epithalamion Story of Orpheus Settings from Astrophil and Stella T Feb. 21 NO CLASS MONDAY SCHEDULE

3 Prof. Harris 3 F Feb. 24 T Feb. 28 Rhetoric and literary criticism What is the relationship of lyric and rhetoric? Musical settings of Sidney, others Silva Rhetoricae English church music Mass liturgy Church of England Puritans Sidney: Defence of Poesy, from Arcadia George Puttenham: from The Arte of English Poesie Claude Palisca: from Music and Ideas Wendy Tarling: from Weapons of Rhetoric Examples from early opera DUE: First short paper Psalms John Wycliffe, Mary Sidney Herbert and Philip Sidney, John Milton Robert Southwell Stephen Gosson: from Schoole of Abuse Continue with late 16 th -century playlist William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, bells London Growth and the Rise of English Theatre F Mar. 3 T Mar. 7 F Mar. 10 Soundscape Street cries London geography, neighborhoods, and growth Pastoral is the urban lyrical? Early modern London drama genre, music, companies, playhouses Romance Knight of the Burning Pestle Ballads, broadsheets Printing practices Bruce Smith: from Acoustic World of Early Modern England Michel DeCerteau: from Practices of Everyday Life Ben Jonson: from Bartholomew Fair London cries consort songs Shakespeare: The Winter s Tale, acts 1-3 Lady Mary Wroth: from Urania Portion of lecture Shakespeare: The Winter s Tale, acts 4-5 Find a ballad on UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive Ballads

4 Prof. Harris 4 NO CLASS SPRING BREAK T Mar. 21 James I The Early Stuart Years and Making Impressions DUE: Second aural log Spectacle, Inigo Jones Lute song, declamatory air, royal music patronage Magic and supernatural Jonson: Masque of Blackness Andrew Sabol: accounts of Stuart revels, dancing manuals Penelope Gouk: from Music, Science, and Natural Magic F Mar. 24 T Mar. 28 F Mar. 31 Social mobility Persona of the poet, Poetomachia More print culture masques, pamphlet wars, broadsides Sons of Ben and Tribe of Ben Political loyalties Forming poetic and musical networks Oxfordians Donne and metaphysical poetry Manuscripts and commonplace books Song transmission Preview remaining music and poetry before choosing final paper topic songs from masques, Macbeth Thomas Dekker: Gull s Handbook Shakespeare: from Sonnets Jonson: Epigraphs, dedications Dowland, Corkine, Ferrabosco Jonson: Conversations with William Drummond, poems TBA Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling: TBA Lawes brothers, John Hilton, catches and glees John Donne: The Flea, The Sun Rising, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, To His Mistress Going to Bed, others TBA Sweet, Stay and variations Sweet, Stay

5 Prof. Harris 5 Religious Lyrics T Apr. 4 Metaphysical religious poetry Formulating research questions DUE: Final paper topic Donne: Holy Sonnets, Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward, Elegy, others TBA Richard Crashaw: The Flaming Heart Kimberly Johnson and Molly Murray: readings TBA Apr. 5-7 (and 20-22) Fordham Theatre production of Winter s Tale at Lincoln Center campus, 8PM (Attend this OR the Voices Up! concert on Saturday, April 22) F Apr. 7 NO CLASS MEETING LIBRARY RESEARCH T Apr. 11 Private vs. public devotion Festival days A New World for worship DUE: Preliminary annotated bibliography for final paper George Herbert: from The Temple Herrick: TBA Anne Bradstreet: TBA Hymns and recusant music, morris dances (Tentative) Leah Marcus: from Politics of Mirth F Apr. 14 NO CLASS EASTER BREAK End of an Era Politically and Poetically and the Start of One Musically T Apr. 18 Charles I and rogue Royalists Exile of the court State of composers and musicians DUE: Second short paper Charles: Eikon basilike Milton: from Eikonoklastes, Sonnet XIII to Henry Lawes Stacey Jocoy: from Decoding Resistance Playford s songs

6 Prof. Harris 6 F Apr. 21 To the country Andrew Marvell: Upon Appleton House Jonson: To Penshurst Carew: Mower poems Sat., Apr. 22 T Apr. 25 Voices Up! Concert with Poets Out Loud winners. At 7:30PM, 12 th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein, Fordham Lincoln Center campus. Why study this stuff? DUE: Third aural log w performance response Discuss performances Martha Nussbaum: TBA F Apr. 28 T May 2 T May 9 Writing (or speaking) Paradise Lost What does it mean to create? The epic What paradise and when? Overview of Restoration theater and music in contrast to Milton FINAL EXAM Final paper DUE 1PM Forbes, Melik Kahlan: Clues from Populist Regimes Around the World Milton: When I consider how my light is spent Get ahead reading Milton Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I, On his blindness Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I William Blake: on Milton s Satan Grading 20% Daily and weekly work (includes quizzes, class work, responses, and questions) 15% Aural logs (includes performance write-up) 10% Six-minute historical lesson 30% Response papers (2 x 15% each) 25% Final paper