of letters saved the Elizabethan dramatists from the unpardonable fault of dullness," said T.S. Eliot '10, this year's incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, in summing up his ...

The Elizabethan Age was characterized by a flourishing ... This period is thus known as the “Golden Age” or poetry in England. The Italian sonnet developed by Dante and Petrarca had become ...

Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

Specializing in late 16th-century poetry and drama, Dan’s book, The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan Poetry (Toronto, 2014), maps the wide-ranging effects of ...