Lecture 7
English 2105 -- British Literature: Beginnings to 1700
A core course in the English Undergraduate Program at the University of Ottawa -- Summer 2020.
Professor Timothy H. Wilson
Department of English, University of Ottawa
Lecture 7 begins with a discussion of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (with an in depth discussion of Sonnet #67 from that sequence).
The lecture then examines the thematic of time in Shakespeare's Sonnets, including discussions of the overall structure of the Sonnets, the thematics of time, poetry and love in the Sonnets, strategies for overcoming time in the "Procreation" sonnets and the ambiguity of the "Dark Lady" sonnets.
Time Codes:
0:00 - Introduction and Course Logistics
3:31 - Recapitulation: Love sonnets, conventions of love poetry; Courtly Love and Petrarchan poetry; Critique of Conventions in Sir Philip Sidney; differences in Renaissance conception of love from concerns of Old English literature and Middle English literature (Chaucer)
10:49 - Introduction to Edmund Spenser
12:05 - Spenser's Conception of Love in Amoretti
15:09 - Traditional Conceptions of Love: Eros, Philo, Agape (Latin: caritas; English: Charity)
20:33 - Spenser's Teaching Concerning Self-less Love: Christian Charity
24:01 - Amoretti, Sonnet #67: Introduction
24:50 - Petrarch, Sonnet #190
27:50 - Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt"
32:41 - Amoretti, Sonnet #67: Close Reading; Meaning of Love as higher liberty through limits and restrictions
49:01 - Shakespeare's Sonnets: Introduction
51:11 - The Structure of Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Young Man Sonnets and the Dark Lady Sonnets
54:17 - On the Procreation Sonnets and the Confrontation with Mortality and Meaning
1:04:28 - Sonnet #1 (From fairest creatures we desire increase) Close Reading
1:10:43 - Sonnet #3 (Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest) Close Reading
1:13:38 - Sonnet #12 (When I do count the clock that tells the time) Close Reading
1:18:38 - Sonnet #15 (When I consider every thing that grows) Close Reading
1:26:07 - Sonnet #18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) Close Reading
1:36:00 - Conclusion
Course Web site – [ Ссылка ]
Professor Wilson's Web site -- The Western Canon: [ Ссылка ]
The powerpoint slides for this lecture can be found here: [ Ссылка ]
