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-Middle class family in Stratford
-Grammar school education
-In 1592, he was an actor in London
-Gradually became a playwright and manager of an acting company
-Some poor editions of Shakespeare's plays were published during his life. Called "quartos".
-The First Folio published in 1623

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Three phases of Donne's life

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Anglican, then Roman Catholic, then Anglican again

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--strength
--courage
--prudence

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Between a lord and a thane: protection in exchange for service

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"seize the day" idea--appeal to woman to love the poet now before her beauty fades

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displays the virtues of its people group

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Roman Catholic view: the next world is better so we should hate this one

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Poetic apology for secular poetry

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remember death

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3 Look in thy glass

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List of the Lady's beauties

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OE poet

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"shall I compare thee to a summer's day"

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"my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (anti-blazon)

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morality
mystery
miracle

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Poet-->beautiful lady-->beauty/goodness in lady-->beauty/goodness-->beauty/goodness in God-->God

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moral but not religious

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Satire-->Pastoral-->Verse Epistle-->Georgic-->Sonnet (Amoretti 1595)-->Ode-->Tragedy--> Epic (Faerie Queene 1590)

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Guidebook

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Pastoral elegy

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Impossibility of finding a faithful woman

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Sleep is great, so death is better

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in the pit, waiting on God

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"when my love swears that she is made of truth"
cynical view of romantic love

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"my love is as a fever"
typical sonnet

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Genre- romantic

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-Londoner from a family of goldsmiths
-One of the tribe of Ben
-Served as Vicar in Dean Prior, Devon. Lost his church when Puritans came to power
-deeply interested in the classical pagan poets
-Also published "Hesperides & Noble Numbers"

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A sonnet against the Roman Catholic Church

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Modeled after the Bible

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- colloquial
- not conventional ornamented
- “the most heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together”
-dramatic
-logical/argumentative

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Carpe diem love poem

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Secular poems

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Religious poems

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common country person bemoaning the walled garden

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a palinode

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Defense for devotional, plain, and simple poetry

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Genre: epic tragedy

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The lines came naturally when he first started writing.

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The best sermon is ineffective without God's work in the Pastor's life.

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Memento Mori

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mentions "cleanly wantonness"

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another memento more poem

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vague allusion to the story of Pandora

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Sycorax and Prospero (light and dark magic)
Miranda and Ferdinand (experience)
Ferdinand and the scheming brothers (ambition)
Calaban and Ariel (servants)

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1 supernatural agencies
2 epic catalog
3 councils
4 in medias res
5 prophetic revelation of future history
6 invocation to a muse
7 love and war
8 descent to the underworld
9 epic similes and allusions
10 stock phrases
11 consequence to a nation or the world

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-Attended Cambridge
-Tutor to child of Parliamentary general around 1650
-Milton's assistant 1657-59
-Member of Parliament of Hull
-his most famous poems published after his death
-combines various kinds of poetry and attitudes from earlier poets
-common romantic love themes treated in an innovative manner
-many poems incorporate country setting

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A conduct book for the lower class. Ex. Pilgrim's Progress