17th century poetry

Introductory concepts

 The 17th Century.ppt

The Scientific Revolution

The Ptolemaic Universe

Copernicus's Heliocentric Solar System

Tycho's Compromise

Kepler's Elliptical Orbits

John Donne

"The Flea"

 "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"  

The poem in a Word document for glossing

"A Valediction" close reading questions

Holy Sonnet X in PDF format

Holy Sonnet X 

Holy Sonnet X discussion page

Sonnet X Close Reading Questions

Ben Jonson 

Ben Jonson talk page

"On My First Son" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/son.htm

"The Forest (to Celia)" [aka "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/celia2.htm

"Song to Celia" (Come, my Celia, let us prove) http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/celia1.htm

Cavaliers

Cavaliers talk page 

Sir John Suckling

"Out Upon It" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/outuponit.htm

"Song" from Aglaura  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/whysopale.htm

Robert Herrick

"Delight in Disorder" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/disorder.htm

"Upon Julia's Clothes" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/clothes.htm

"To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/tovirgins.htm

Richard Lovelace

"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lucastawars.htm

"To Althea, From Prison" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/altheaprison.htm

Puritans

Felix culpa, the "happy fall" paradox

George Herbert

"Easter Wings"     http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/easterwings.htm

"The Pulley"     http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/pulley.htm

Henry Vaughan

"The Retreat"     http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/retreat.htm

17th century poetry quiz

Andrew Marvell:

"To His Coy Mistress"