English Poetry and History

 Week 1 - Introduction and Early Medieval Poetry
 Week 2 – Medieval Lyrics and Affective Piety (meanwhile in Italy…)
 Week 3 – Sonnets, Shakespeare and the Metaphysical Poets
 Week 4 – Civil War and 17th Century Women Poets
 Week 5 – Revolutions: Politics, mysticism and Romantics
 Week 6 – 19th Century Aesthetics, the First World War, and its aftermath