"Cover Page"

for

Seventeenth-Century Literature 4328/5328

Spring 2006

Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor, UALR

1. Syllabus; Take-home prose style exercise; handout on the "culture" paper; handout on the "pedagogy" paper

2. Duplicates of Talking Points (poetry) presented in class; Talking Points (prose)

3. General handouts: Numerology, Dates, Lunatic Fringe, Style (Lyly, Shakespeare, Hemingway)

4. Poems not in your texts but available on the Web as well as by handouts:

a. Epithalamia:

• Jonson, Ben "Epithalamion ... Jerome Weston"
• Herrick, Robert "A Nuptiall Song ... Clipseby Crew" , "Upon a maid that dyed ... , "A Nuptiall Verse to Mistresse Elizabeth Lee ..."

b. Death Elegies (see also"burials"):

• Spenser, Edmund "November Eclogue" (alternate site)
• Jonson, Ben "An Elegy ... Jane Paulet"
• Henry King, "The Exequy"

c. Love Elegies:

• Jonson, Ben "An Elegy (By those bright eyes)", "An Elegy (Let me be what I am)"

d. Epigrams:

• Jonson, Ben "Epigrams"
• Herrick, Robert Epigrams from the Hesperides
• Anonymous Miscellaneous Bawdry

e. Satire:

• Jonson, Ben "On the Famous Voyage" & "The Voyage Itself"

e. Lyric Forms: Blazon

• Sidney, Sir Philip "What Tongue can her Perfections Tell"
• Spenser, Edmund Sonnet #15 ("Ye tradefull Merchants")
• Suckling, Sir John "The Deformed Mistress"

Fairy Poems: Herrick, Robert "Oberon's Feast," "The Hag"

Religious Verse:

• Herbert, George: Selected Poems from The Temple

 

5. Prose Selections not in your text but available on the Web:

• handout on style: Lyly, Shakespeare, Hemingway
• Overbury, Thomas: "A Good Wife," "A Tinker," "An Excellent Actor"
• Earle, John: "An Upstart Knight," "A Player," "Paul's Walk"
• Fuller's Worthies: "John Smith," "King Arthur," "William Shakespeare"
• Aubrey's Brief Lives: Sir Walter Ralegh
• Howell, James, Letters to Mr. Richard Altham; to his brother, Hugh Penry
• The Diary of John Evelyn: selection from 1660
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys: selections from 1660; for a section on the Great Fire (1666), see Norton