It’s a pleasure to have you aboard this semester as we explore the theme of “the floating world,” not only as it first appears in early modern Japanese literature, but also where similar themes and situations play out in other literatures around the world and through time.
For Thursday, please read Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Come to class ready to talk about some similarities and differences between the form, content, and style of each poem as a whole, its characters, and its descriptions.
Looking forward to a Great semester!
Sean Nolan