1-. Renaissance and Reformation.
- The Reformation in England.
- The Renaissance in England: Main Features of the New Era.
2-. The Periods of the English Renaissance:
- English Literature under the Early Tudors. The New Learning. Sir Thomas More and the Ideal World of Utopia. Other English Humanists: Sir Thomas Elyot and Roger Ascham. TEXTS: excerpts from Utopia.
- An Era of Translation and Scholarship.
- The New Poetry: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. TEXTS: by Wyatt, "I Find No Peace", "My Galley Chargèd with Forgetfulness", "Farewell, Love" and by Surrey, "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought".
3-. The Elizabethan Period. Verse and Prose Narrative. John Lyly's Artifitial Prose: Euphues. Other Prose Writers: Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, and Thomas Deloney. The Epic: Richard Hakluyt. TEXTS: excerpts from Euphues.
4-. The Great Elizabethan Poets: Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.
- Sidney as the Ideal Renaissance Man. The Idyllic World of Arcadia. A Great Piece of Criticism: the Defense of Poesy. Sidney's Poetry: the Sonnet-Sequence Astrophil and Stella.
- Spenser. The Pastoral Genre: The Shepheardes Calendar. Other Early Poems. The Allegorical Epic: The Faerie Queene. Epithalamion. Prothalamion. Later Poems.
- Shakesperare's Poetry. The Narrative Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and "The Phoenix and the Turtle". The Sonnets. TEXTS: from Astrophil and Stella, sonnets I and LXXVII; from Amoretti, sonnets I and LXVII; from Shakespeare's Sonnets, II, and CXXX.
5-. The Metaphysical and Devotional Poets: John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaugham, and Andrew Marvell. TEXTS: by Donne, "A Valediction: of Weeping".
6-. The Cavalier Poets: Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace. TEXTS: by Jonson, "An Elegy".
7-. John Milton: Prose Polemicist and Poet. TEXTS: Lycidas.
8-. Seventeenth-Century Autobiographical Writing: Samuel Pepys and John Bunyan. TEXTS: excerpts from their respective autobiographies.
9-. The Poetry of the Restoration Period: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dryden and Aphra Behn. TEXTS: by Rochester, "A Ramble in Saint James's Parke" and by Dryden, Mac Flecknoe.
