EN 544 - Early Lyric Poetry

Credits: 3

An examination of lyric forms from Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Readings may include classical writers such as Sappho, Alceus, Catullus, and Horace, Medieval troubadours and minnesingers as well as the early anonymous English poets and renaissance poets such as Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Wyatt. The emphasis will be on scholarship and interpretation.