Will Rossiter. Early Modern Imitation as Creative-Critical Pedagogy

by ThomasAdmin | Jun 20, 2022 | Teaching Through Imitation Content

I had been setting essays on Renaissance sonnets for a number of years. Students were producing solid, competent analyses (mainly low to mid-2:1) but the majority of the essays were dealing primarily with the matter or narrative of the sonnet, insofar as a sonnet has a narrative, rather than attending to matters of form – the thing which makes a sonnet a sonnet.