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8:29 Women Poets from Sappho to the Present

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Syllabus

January 22nd, 2008 Tuesday

introduction, course information; Sappho

January 29th, 2008

Sappho

February 5th, 2008

2 medieval poems in book, "The Wife's Lament" and "Wulf and Eadwacer"

February 12th, 2008

Renaissance, student choice (Lanier, Philips, Killigrew)

February 19th, 2008

Anne Bradstreet

February 26th, 2008

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children"

March 4th, 2008

student choice

March 11th, 2008

Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

March 18th, 2008

spring break

March 25th

student choice

April 1st, 2008

Emily Dickinson

April 8th, 2008

student choice (international)

April 15th, 2008

Rosamund Marriott Watson

April 22nd, 2008

student choice (African-American poet, poss. Harper, Grimke, Jordan, Brooks, Dove)

title for paper due, bibliography

April 29th, 2008

student choice (Native, Hispanic, Asian-American)

May 6th, 2008

reports on your final papers

May 16th, 2008 Friday

final essay due