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