In this course we will read and discuss poems by William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, and Walter Raleigh, and we will learn about ...

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', were published and he dedicated them to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton.