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Fwd: [Ten Premodern Poems by Women] Week 2 of Ten Premodern Poems by Women now live!

Week 2 of Ten Premodern Poems by Women is now live, and you can visit it by clicking here or going to https://lagunita.stanford.edu and selecting the course.

Welcome to the second week of our online course!  Your comments, discussion and insight have all helped with the understanding of our first poem, Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book". This week's poem is a text that will also benefit  from knowing its context, but in a different way. "Epitaph" is not long.  Just 22 lines. Katherine Philips, its author, was a young English woman, who married at 16, died at the age of 33 and in this poem wrote one of the loveliest and darkest elegies of the 17th century.  The poem here was written for her little son Hector who lived for just forty days. The opening few lines are a musical masterpiece – a cadence that mixes melody and pain and anger in perfect proportion. What makes this lament powerful - and also unusual - is that Katherine Philip's life crossed over into some of the most important and tumultuous events of English history. Philips was a Royalist. She was at the impressionable age of 18 when her king, Charles I, was executed and beheaded for treason in the English Civil War. But her subject is not his death. It is a far more private sorrow. This counterpoint between a public event and a personal grief highlights Philip's achievement in this poem, which might otherwise be easy to overlook: the way in which a private poetic voice can still speak to us across the centuries, with power and authority, when so much of the public world has faded from view.

Eavan Boland

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Thank you Donna, I've completed more than ten online college classes this year.

Thank you, Donna. Another certificate came in just as I had completed the quiz questions at 100% for the course on Australian Literature- thirty two correct out of thirty two asked. It was eighty two questions correct out of eighty two questions asked for three courses. The class before that, with a low graded essay still came in with a certificate of distinction by a percent or two, at 71 questions out of 72- the total of quiz questions for the last four completed certificate courses makes 153 questions answered correct out of 154, from four different countries.
The certificate for Scandinavian Film and Television was sent twice, once a year ago, and this month, after having completed the course twice.

This year has had:

Scandinavian Film University of Copenhagen completed twice

Warhol Edinburgh
Introduction to Philosophy Edinburgh
Kierkegaard. Copenhagen with distinction
Plato Singapore with distinction
Modern Poerty Pennsylvania
Hollywood Film Wesleyan with 100% score

During that time two certificates were sent from Harvard University for American Poetry, the fourth class in progress at the moment which will make three out of four and added to that can be more than three courses from England on Future Learn, including Univeristies of Leicester, Warwick and Sheffield.


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