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Please leave your reading responses on my desk before leaving today. Note that class is cancelled on Monday, October 25th. For next Wednesday, please complete the following reading assignments: Edmund Spenser's *The Faerie Queene* (pp. 714-732) and Sir Philip Sidney's works including *Defense of Poesy* and selected sonnets from *Astrophil & Stella*. Presentations will include Sara Pittson on Spenser’s biography, Elena Arzate on *The Faerie Queene*, and Eva Marogi on Sidney's biography.
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Today’s Agenda: Midterm • Leave Reading Responses at my desk before leaving • * * * Class cancelled on Monday, Oct. 25th. * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading Homework for next Wednesday: • Edmund Spenser (705-07); The Faerie Queene 714-32 • Sir Philip Sidney (947-48): The Defense of Poesy (953-54): “The Poet, Poetry” (955-58), “Answer to the Charges against Poetry” (967-68), “Conclusion” (973-74); Astrophil &Stella, sonnets 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 15 (975-78) Next Wednesday’s Presentations • Sara Pittson: Spenser’s biography (705-07) • Elena Arzate: Brief overview &points of interest—The Faerie Queene, Bk 1, Canto 1 • Eva Marogi: Sidney’s biography (947-48)