All entries for Friday 11 December 2009

Journals

In one of the seminars yesterday I went through a list of journals that are particularly useful for this module. One of them is Early Modern Literary Studies, which is freely available online: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html

The others are: The Seventeenth Century; English Literary History; and English Literary Renaissance. These are all available online and can be found very easily via a search of the library catalogue.

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Useful Book

Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion ed., Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (OUP, 2006). A useful collection of short essays (all written by leading experts) on specific aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry.

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Hester Pulter

As usual, the reading in bold type is a compulsory part of the course and everything else is optional but highly recommended.

Please read the selection of Pulter’s poems on the website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/projects/hesterpulter/

Points to think about:

- What does Pulter have to say about gender? How are these ideas conveyed? You might want to think about poetic form, use of imagery etc.
- The poems on Charles I make it clear where Pulter’s political sympathies lay. In the selection of poetry provided, does she convey her royalism by other means?
- Think about Pulter’s manipulation of literary form. What does she do that’s familiar? In what ways does she innovate?
- We’ve talked a lot about personal voice this term. What can we say about Pulter’s ‘voice’?
- In what ways do the material circumstances in which the poems were produced impact on the form and content of those poems?

Optional Extra Reading:

A full list of everything ever published on Pulter has been supplied on the website.

Watch the video!

YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT PULTER HAS HER OWN PROFILE ON FACEBOOK (FROM TIME TO TIME SHE COMPOSES A NEW POEM)

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