Elizabeth Harris Sagaser teaches, writes, and writes about a wide range of poetry. Her original specialty is 16th- and 17th-century English poetry, and she always offers courses on lyric and narrative poetry from Wyatt to Behn. But she also teaches various cross-century poetry and poetic theory courses. She has published essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets (ELH) , Spenser (Spenser Studies), and Daniel (Exemplaria). Her most recent essay, "Flirting With Eternity: Teaching Form and Meter in a Renaissance Poetry Class," elaborates on ways she explores the performative and social dimensions of early modern lyric with her students and the philosophical and psychological ideas that inform her teaching and writing. Currently she is working on apostrophe and elegiac address in Mary Sidney Herbert and others. She has also published poems, book reviews, and a personal essay. When she can, she teaches poetry in local public elementary and middle schools and at conferences for girls. The underlying concern of much of her scholarship, teaching and poetry is how people have used, and do use, poetry to cope with their knowledge of human fragility.