1. Early 17 th c. Verse A Tale of Two Schools? “The Cavalier Poets”---Sons of Ben John Donne and the “Metaphysicals”

2. Some Traditional “Cavalier” Characteristics Balance//Parallelism Polite Courtly Diction and Tone Octosyllabic Couplets and Caesurae Example—”Still to be Neat” (p. 1444/)

3. Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

4. “Metaphysical Poets” Origin of term Some characteristics –Colloquialism (Jonson: “Donne, for not keeping of accent deserved hanging”) –Intellectual complexity –Argumentation –Anti-Petrarchanism –Metaphysical conceits (discordia concors— harmonious discord)

5. How I’ve Organized this Unit Religion, Politics, Love –Elegy 19 (p. 1283/1393) The Two “Schools”

6. John Donne

7. Jack Donne/Dr. Donne Keep track of poetic persona

8. “The Flea” (p. 1263/1373) Argumentation Metaphysical conceit Mixture of secular and religious language

9. Secular/Religious language The Canonization (p. 1267/1377) The Relic (p. 1280/1390)

10. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”(p. 1275/1385) Blending of religious and secular Colloquial, intellectually complex, argumentative

11. Carpe Diem Poems Herrick: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (p. 1659/1762) –Trochaic tetrameter –(Trochee: stressed, unstressed) –Flow, movement –Classical sources

12. Carpe Diem Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress” (p. 1703/1796) Iambic tetrameter couplets (iamb: unstressed, stressed) Begins with familiar courtly elements— hyperbole, blazon A darker turn

13. Jonson, “To Penshurst” (p. 1434/1546) Sidney family home Country house poem How is this poem structured? –Shaped through description of the estate –Awareness of social hierarchy (peasants to king—Jonson’s background) –Time also adds order Negative contrast—classic Jonson?

14. Lanyer “Cookham” (1319/1436) Elegiac (ll. 7, 9, 14, 128) How do pastimes differ from “Penshurst”? –(line 161) Virtuous women (l. 81 ff) Preserving the estate through poem (lines 205-210

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16. Marvell An Horatian Ode p. 1712/1806 –What’s an ode? An Horatian Ode? –Historical situation –Cromwell as a force of Nature –Depiction of execution –Comparison to Rome –Whose side is he on?

17. Marvell Bermudas p. 1698/1791 About a group of Puritan exiles What’s left out of this poem?

18. Donne’s Holy Sonnets Calvinism Sonnet 1: 1295/1410 Sonnet 9: Direct Address to God p.1296/1412 Sonnet 10: Personifying Death P. 1296/1412 Sonnet 14: Violent relationship to God –P. 12971413

19. Herrick: Corrina’s Going A-Maying p. 1658/1760 Archbishop Laud The Book of Sports May Day Elements of Carpe Diem/Pastoral

20. Herbert: The Collarp. 1619/1720 Shifts in voicing Shifts in tense Order and outburst—expressing spiritual struggle Children of God Multiple meanings of the title