Newstok, Scott L.2013-01-312013-01-312012-01-11http://hdl.handle.net/10267/15274This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor. Uploaded by Archives RSA Josephine Hill.A critical investigation the sonnet, which has proven to be one of the most durable yet flexible lyric forms in the English language, accommodating a surprisingly wide range of poets and modes. This senior seminar will survey major practitioners of the sonnet, with Shakespeare and his Renaissance peers as central figures, yet stretching back to Petrarch and forward to contemporary Anglophone writers, including a novel written as linked sonnets, Vikram Seth’s Golden Gate. We will explore translation and cultural autonomy; gender and voice; tension between isolated lyric poems and their development in sequences; the dynamics of revisionary dialogues between poets; and more abstract principles about literary form and its evolution. Selected poets will include Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, Sidney, Wroth, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Smith, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Meredith, Rosetti, Wharton, Lazarus, Hopkins, Yeats, Moore, Bogan, Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Walcott, Hill, Merrill, Brooks, and Heaney, among many.en-USRhodes College owns the rights to the archival digital images in this collection. Objects are made available for educational use only and may not be used for any non-educational or commercial purpose. Approved educational uses include private research and scholarship, teaching, and student projects. Original copies of the programs are stored in the Rhodes College Archives. In all instances of use, acknowledgement must be given to Rhodes College Archives Digital Repository, Memphis, TN. For information regarding permission to use this image, please email the Archives at archives@rhodes.eduEnglish, Department ofSyllabusAcademic departmentsTextCurriculum2011 SpringSyllabus