One tactic I use is to teach one version of my sixteenth century course as
a course in sixteenth-century love poetry, or love literature. You can get
a good deal of Spenser into that--the Amoretti, Epithalamion and Book III
of the FQ.
Bill Oram
At 08:37 AM 4/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>As a follow-up to the wonderful testimonies about students' warm responses
>to Spenser (which I've also experienced), I would love to hear how people
>actually get undergrads _into_ Spenser courses in the first place. This
>seems increasingly difficult to do, though I think it's long been a problem
>because majors in surveys of the Brit Lit I type often have bad experiences
>with him, or the ways he's taught--or not taught at all. Thanks!
>Theresa M. Krier
>Dept. of English
>Bryan 219
>University of Virginia
>Charlottesville, VA 22904
>
>804/245-5036
>
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