Challenges and Achievements: Teaching Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 to a Third Year "English Literature" Class

The teaching of Shakespeare's sonnet 34, among others, was attempted in order to counterbalance an overabundance of "survey" courses and to take the students deeply into a single major writer a poet again to counterbalance an overabundance of courses on prose writers. Sonnet 34 provided a few challenges in several archaic words, and in some Christian terms, but dealing with these left the students in a good position to successfully ingest and enjoy this and other sonnets.