Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition

＂Rebuffs centuries of mythologization-the idea that Shakespeare ＂never blotted line＂-to argue that studying how early modern writers (George Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Davies of Hereford, Lady Anne Southwell, and William Shakespeare) approached the challenges of writing poetry can help modern teachers empower students’ approaches to critical writing＂--

Adhaar Noor Desai is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. Follow him on Twitter @adhaardesai.