This mini-course is open to Friends of the College only; learn more about and join the Friends at sarahlawrence.edu/friends.
16th- and 17th-Century writers thought a great deal about friendship, fellowship, and community. What does it mean to call a friend “a second self”? Do men and women envision friendship differently? What does it take to create and maintain “a small circle of friends?” We will consider these questions, among others, as we discuss poems, essays, and drama by John Donne, Katherine Phillips, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Henry Vaughan, Aemilia Lanyer, Cicero, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and Shakespeare.
Learn more about literature faculty member Ann Lauinger
This course runs for three days, January 9, 10, and 11. Reading materials will be available upon registration.
To register for this course, or for more information on the Friends of Sarah Lawrence College, please e-mail friends@sarahlawrence.edu or call 914.323.6154.