THE STUART PERIOD
Unit 4
ABOUT THE PERIOD
• Change
• Parliament, Puritan
• Puritans, purify, king
• Charles, right
• - Right
• - Parliament, Eleven, absolute
ABOUT THE PERIOD
• War, Cavaliers, Roundheads
• Oliver Cromwell, Commonwealth
• Monarchy, Charles
• Protector, Stuart, unpopular
• Catholic
ABOUT THE PERIOD
• Mary, Orange, Catholic, fled, peaceful
• “Glorious”
• Bill, land, Catholic
ABOUT THE LITERATURE
• - Puritans
• Milton, age, epic, Bunyan, allegory, allegory
• Cavalier
• Ben, Jonson, pleasures, women
• Mind, Donne, feeling, argument
• Prose
• drama
ABOUT CAVALIER POETRY
• Royalists
• Love, good
• Puritans
• - upper
• - Playful
• - life
• - day
• - Love
ABOUT METAPHYSICAL POETRY
• Contrasts
• Conceit
• Depth
• Devotional, spiritual
• Complexities
• Intellectual
• Logical
• Death
• Donne, Herbert
ABOUT SIR FRANCIS BACON
• Bribes, ruined
• Printing, physical, observation
• Science, scientific method, hypothesis
• essay
ABOUT JOHN DONNE
• Greatest
• Conceit, compass
• Jack
• Youth
• Spiritual, never
• Death
• Consent
• Preacher, King James
ABOUT “A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER”
• Hymn, choir
• Illness
• Adam’s
• Father
• Forgiveness
• Video of song
ABOUT “A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER”
• Puns, Jesus, name
• Forgiveness, forgiveness, stumble, spider, salvation
• Fates, cuts
• Heaven, allusion
• two
ABOUT BEN JONSON
• Controversy, duel, Latin
• Shakespeare
• First
• Shakespeare
• Playwright
• laureate
ABOUT “SONG TO CELIA”
• Video of song
• Three, Celia
• Imaginary
• First asking her to drink a toast to him with her eyes. He says that he
would rather have a kiss from her than accept a god’s wine. He sends her
a wreath of roses so that her presence will keep them from withering
• Preposterous
• - goddess
• - life, - life, - life
ABOUT “ON MY FIRST SON”
• Epigram
• Escaped, no
• Not, grief
• poetry
ABOUT GEORGE HERBERT
• Saintly
• Anglican, limit
• Shape
• The Temple
ABOUT “REDEMPTION”
• A variation on the English sonnet
• Idea, concrete
• Legal
• Tenant, new, dies
• grant
ABOUT “REDEMPTION”
Tenor
Mankind
The Son
Covenants
Kingdom of heaven
Spiritual history
Redemption
Vehicle
Tenant
Rich lord
Leases
Land
Search
Granting of request
• Not
• Thieves, before, able, death
• Irony, not
ABOUT “LOVE”
• ?
• Love, invitation, Love, eyes, lust, Love, blame, Love’s
• grace
ABOUT JOHN MILTON
• Greatest
• Seventeenth
• Greek
• Blind, sight, three, Blindness”
• Life, God
• - pastoral, death
• - press
• - blind
ABOUT PARADISE LOST
• Epic
• Great national hero (not Adam but the Son of God), lofty language,
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supernatural elements, explores the struggle of good and evil
Theme
Fall
Evil
Prophecy
Unity, fory
Greek, creation
Satan’s
Blank verse
ABOUT “SONNET 7”
• Italian
• I. slow
• II. Trust
• Solution, God’s, plan
ABOUT “SONNET 18”
• Image
• Martyrs
• Pope
• Thebes, teeth
• seed
ABOUT “SONNET 19: ON HIS BLINDNESS”
• Fail, first
• Poetry
• ?
ABOUT SAMUEL PEPYS (PRONOUNCED PEEPS)
• Navy
• Nine, Fire, complex
ABOUT PEPYS’S DIARY
• Not, misery, without
• Pair, bishop, character, practice, character
• Fire, sad, nature, benefitted
• Theater, peace, duality
ABOUT JOHN BUNYAN
• Bedford
• Visions
• Army
• Burdened, Savior
• Preachers
• Bible
• Preaching, twelve
• Preaching
• The Pilgrim’s Progress
• father
ABOUT THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
• Both, poor, not
• Publication
• Languages
• 10,000, Bible
• Readership
• Creative, writing
• Coleridge, evangelistic
• Spurgeon, twice, six
• simple
ABOUT THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
• Classic
• Allegory, symbols
• Every, names
• Narrator, dream, Christian book, sin, saved
• - Their city will be burned with fire from heaven.
• - They think he has gone mad.
ABOUT THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
• Traps, guilt, doubts, burden
• Pliable, not, not, only
• Worldly, earthly, scornful, shortcuts
• Questions, counselor
• Law
• Narrow
• Holy Spirit, himself, before
ABOUT THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
• Saved, robes, mark
• World, idols, Christ
• Elijah, earth
• Hopeful