Preface to the Series

Preface to the Volume

PART ONE: Materials

Patrick Cheney

Introduction

Classroom Texts

Individual Poets

Anthologies

Additional Student Readings

The Instructor's Library

Editions

Reference Works

Background Studies and Critical Works

Cheney's Choice

Note on Texts

PART TWO: APPROACHES

Introduction

Anne Lake Prescott

Teaching Backgrounds

Elizabethan Poetry in the Postmodern Classroom

Clark Hulse

The Origins and Art of Versification in Early Modern English

Susanne Woods

From Medieval to Tudor Lyric: Familiarizing Rhetoric

Judith H. Anderson

Framing the Authentic Petrarch: From the Rime sparse to Astrophil and Stella

William J. Kennedy

Religious Backgrounds of Elizabethan Shorter Poetry

Debora Shuger

``Tradition and the Individual Talent'': Teaching Ovid and the Epyllion in the Context of the 1590s

Georgia E Brown

``The Mushroom conception of Idle Brains'': Antipoetic Sentiment in the Classroom

Peter C. Herman

Selected Pedagogical Strategies, Courses, Units, Assignments

Sex and the Shorter Poem

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Giving Voice to Renaissance Lyric

Thersea M. Krier

Philomela and the Gender of Nightingales

Mary Ellen Lamb

The Multiple Readerships Elizabethan Poetry

Caroline McManus

Placing Elizabethan Poetry: Summary Some Classroom Ideas

Louise Schleiner

Infinite Riches and Very Little Room: Speeding through Some Sonnets in the Introductory Historical Survey

Clare R. Kinney

Incorporating Women Writers into the Survey Course: The Countess of Pembroke's Psalm 73 and Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 5

Margaret P. Hannay

Teaching Renaissance Manuscript Poetry

Steven W. May

Editing an Elizabethan Poem: A Course Assignment

Sheila T. Cavanagh

The Elizabethan Age Portfolio: Using Writing to Teach Shorter Elizabethan Poetry

John Webster

Critical and Theoretical Approaches

Teaching Genre

Heather Dubrow

Impressions of Poetry: The Publication of Elizabethan lyric Verse

David Scott Kastan

New Historicism and the Cultural Aesthetics of the High Elizabethan Lyric

Patricia Fumerton

Poststructuralism: Teaching the Amoretti

Roger Kuin

``Love Is Not (Heterosexual) Love'': Historicizing Sexuality in Elizabethan Poetry

Mario DiGangi

What's Race Got to Do with It? Teaching Shorter

Elizabethan Poetry

Margo Hendricks

Teaching Specific Poems and Poets

Motives for Metaphor in Gascoigne's and Ralegh's Poems

Jane Hedley

A Week with Calendar

John W Moore

Learning to Love the Star Lover: Teaching Astrophil and Stella

Diana E. Henderson

Elizabeth I: Poet of Danger

Janel Mueller

Teaching Noncanonical Poetry to Undergraduates: The Sonnets of Anne Vaughan Lock

Susan M. Felch

Words and Music: Compinon and the Song Tradition

Stephen Ratcliffe

Reading Marlowe's Lyric

Arthur F. Kinney

Teaching Spenser's Marriage Poetry: Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion

Patrick Cheney

Anne Lake Prescott

Making Shakespeare's Sonnets Matter in the Classroom

Michael Schoenfeldt

Teaching Critical Narratives of the Elizabethan Age

A Story of Generations

Richard Helgerson

Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of the ``Selfe''

Elizabeth Fowler

Wolves in Shepherds' Folds: Elizabethan Shorter Poetry and Reformation Culture

John N. King

The Experimental and the Local

Roland Greene

Elizabethan Lyric Poetry and Early Modern Print Culture

Arthur F. Marotti

Notes on Contributors

Survey Participants

Works Cited

Index of Selected Works

Index of Names