Thomas Kinsella

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Friday, December 7th

A Discussion of Punctuation. “Edward, Edward” “Lord Randall” Skelton’s “Manerly Margery” Spenser’s “To His Booke” Astrophel & Stella 1 Campion’s “Silly Boy” Paradise Lost, Book 9, ll. 886-895

Guide to Punctuation

Didn’t I give you copies of my Brief Guide to Punctuation? Didn’t you read it? Wow, most of you seem to have a block about standard punctuation around quotation marks and parenthetical citations. Please remind me and we can discuss this on Friday.

True True Thomas

A prezi edition of the poem

Montrose & Milton

Montrose and Milton Montrose and Milton doc

Post Sandy Syllabus is posted

We’ll discuss this in class on November 5th.

The Friday after Sandy

Folks, I am not going to PENN on November 2nd. We will hold class — if you can get to campus. I think a rousing analysis of more Donne poetry may put us all in a better mood. Happy Halloween.

O witty John

In response to his ill-considered marriage, JD supposedly chalked this witticism on a back kitchen door: “John Donne, Anne Donne, un-done.”

The Undertaking

Hey, ho, add “The Undertaking” to the Donne poems you read for Wednesday the 24th. It will repay a careful reading. THE UNDERTAKING I HAVE done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did ; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. It were but madness now to impart …

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Pamphilia and Amphilanthus read aloud

Here’s a link to the librivox reading of Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia & Amphilanthus.

Penhurst Castle

Home of Sir Philip Sidney, then to his brother Robert Sidney and his daughter Lady Mary Wroth (before her marriage). After Mary’s marriage to Robert Wroth in 1604 she moved to Loughton Hall, now a home for the elderly.