EXAM - English literature 2
Going To Bed; Holy Sonnets (9, X, XIV); Hymn To God My God, in My Sickness.
Francis Quarles: emblem poems
Canticle
George Herbert: courtly urbanity of language, certain neatness and point, his wit „homely” (simple),
sometimes queer, conceits in title.
The Dawning; The Altar; The Collar; The Pilgrimage
Richard Crashaw: paradoxes, sensuous warmth, conceit as isolated ornament rather than integral part of
poem’s meaning
To the Noblest & best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh
Henry Vaughan: many obvious borrowings, striking opening lines.
The World
Andrew Marvell: many strands of 17thC thought, feeling and style, created the tradition of garden poems
The Definition of Love, To His Coy Mistress, The Garden
Ben Jonson: IX: Song: To Celia, II: To Penshurst; Hymn to Cynthia.
4. The arrival of classicism in England. The impact of the art collections of the Earl of Arundel
and Charles I
Inigo Jones, travel with Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel