Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry
Editor(s): Patrick Cheney, Anne Lake Prescott
Pages: xiv & 331 pp.
Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780873527545 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527538 (hardcover)
"I wish something like this had been available when I started out! But I'm glad it's available now, because even after twenty years of teaching this poetry I find myself repeatedly instructed and inspired by the wealth of ideas and information Cheney and Prescott have managed to assemble."
David Lee Miller, author, The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene, and coeditor, The Production of English Renaissance Culture
"There is very specific advice about what to do in the classroom useful for both those teaching Elizabethan poetry for the first time and for experienced teachers wanting to vary their repertory."
Lauren Silberman, author, Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene
Teaching Elizabethan poems, Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott tell us in their preface to this book, "can provide pleasure and insight, but it can also be a challenge: modern students, and even modern teachers, sometimes find shorter Elizabethan poems aesthetically or emotionally engaging but culturally remote and intellectually difficult." This collection of essays presents materials and strategies for helping students and teachers share in the enjoyment of Elizabethan poetry, including verse by authors such as Thomas Campion, John Donne, Michael Drayton, Elizabeth I, George Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Ralegh, Mary Sidney, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, the earl of Surrey, Mary Wroth, and Thomas Wyatt.
Like other books in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," suggests texts and anthologies for use in the classroom and identifies important background resources and critical studies for the instructor. From this profusion of information, the coeditor, Patrick Cheney, recommends a convenient list of items for the instructor in a hurry. Part 2, "Approaches," contains thirty-seven essays on teaching individual poems and authors or a selection of poems, as well as developing an entire course using a coherent critical narrative.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry
PART 1: MATERIALS
Patrick Cheney
Introduction
- Classroom Texts
- Individual Poets
- Anthologies
Additional Student Readings
- The Instructor's Library
- Editions
- Reference Works
- Background Studies and Critical Works
Cheney's Choice
Note on Texts
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Anne Lake Prescott
Teaching Backgrounds
Elizabethan Poetry in the Postmodern Classroom
Clark Hulse
The Origins and Art of Versification in Early Modern English
Suzanne Woods
From Medieval to Tudor Lyric: Familiarizing Rhetoric
Judith H. Anderson
Framing the Authentic Petrarch: From the Rime sparse to Astrophil and Stella
William J. Kennedy
Religious Backgrounds of Elizabethan Shorter Poetry
Deborah Shuger
"Tradition and the Individual Talent": Teaching Ovid and the Epyllion in the Context of the 1590s
Georgia E. Brown
"The Mushroom Conception of Idle Brains": Antipoetic Sentiment in the Classroom
Peter C. Herman
Selected Pedagogical Strategies, Courses, Units, Assignments
Sex and the Shorter Poem
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Giving Voice to Renaissance Lyric
Theresa M. Krier
Philomela and the Gender of Nightingales
Mary Ellen Lamb
The Multiple Readerships of Elizabethan Poetry
Caroline McManus
Placing Elizabethan Poetry: Some Classroom Ideas
Louise Schleiner
Infinite Riches and Very Little Room: Speeding through Some Sonnets in the Introductory Historical Survey
Clare R. Kinney
Incorporating Women Writers into the Survey Course: The Countess of Pembroke's Psalm 73 and Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 5
Margaret P. Hannay
Teaching Renaissance Manuscript Poetry
Steven W. May
Editing an Elizabethan Poem: A Course Assignment
Sheila T. Cavanagh
The Elizabethan Age Portfolio: Using Writing to Teach Shorter Elizabethan Poetry
John Webster
Critical and Theoretical Approaches
Teaching Genre
Heather Dubrow
Impressions of Poetry: The Publication of Elizabethan Lyric Verse
David Scott Kastan
New Historicism and the Cultural Aesthetics of High Elizabethan Lyric
Patricia Fumerton
Poststructuralism: Teaching the Amoretti
Roger Kuin
"Love is Not (Heterosexual) Love": Historicizing Sexuality in Elizabethan Poetry
Mario DiGangi
What's Race Got to Do with It? Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry
Margo Hendricks
Teaching Specific Poems and Poets
Motives for Metaphor in Gascoigne's and Ralegh's Poems
Jane Hedley
A Week with the Calender
John W. Moore, Jr.
Learning to Love the Star Lover: Teaching Astrophil and Stella
Diana E. Henderson
Elizabeth I: Poet of Danger
Janet Mueller
Teaching Noncanonical Poetry to Undergraduates: The Sonnets of Anne Vaughan Lock
Susan M. Felch
Words and Music: Campion and the Song Tradition
Stephen Ratcliffe
Reading Marlowe's Lyric
Arthur F. Kinney
Teaching Spenser's Marriage Poetry: Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion
Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott
Making Shakespeare's Sonnets Matter in the Classroom
Michael Schoenfeldt
Teaching Critical Narratives of the Elizabethan Age
A Story of Generations
Richard Helgerson
Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of the "Selfe"
Elizabeth Fowler
Wolves in Shepherds' Folds: Elizabethan Shorter Poetry and Reformation Culture
John N. King
The Experimental and the Local
Roland Greene
Elizabethan Lyric Poetry and Early Modern Print Culture
Arthur F. Marotti
Works Cited
Index of Selected Works
Index of Names
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