Seventeenth and Eighteenth Poetry,Poetic Devices, and Prose
Assignment: Read your assigned poet’s biography, featured literary element(s), and
poems. After reading them, discuss these with your peer (partner) concerning the
meaning and any analyses that go along with the poem. Then, create a presentation that
expresses the main ideas of the poems and present this poet, along with his/her poetic
devices, representative works, along with a brief analysis of the influences on his/her
writings and/or his/her contributions to your peers due on November 13@ beginning of
class. (30 point assignment).
POETRY
Poet# 1: John Donne (quartet)__________________________________________
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Poet #2: Ben Jonson (trio)_______________________________________________
(1)
(2)
(3)
Poet #3: Andrew Marvell (duet)_____________________________________________
Poet #4: Robert Herrick(duet)_______________________________________________
Poet #5: John Suckling(duet)________________________________________________
Poet#6: John Milton (duet) (sonnets only):
(1)__________________________________________________
(2)_____________________________________________________________________
Poet #7: Amelia Lanier(duet)________________________________________________
Poet #8: Dante Alighieri(duet)_______________________________________________
Poet #9: Richard Lovelace(duet)____________________________________________
(1)
(2)
Poet #10: Alexander Pope (trio)_____________________________________________
(1)
*(2)
Poet #11: Thomas Gray(duet)________________________________________
Poet # 12: Anne Finch (duet)________________________________________
PROSE
Author #13: Jonathan Swift (trio)________________________
*(1)
(2)
Extra Credit Opportunities (singleton’s only; first come, first served):
Author #14: Samuel Johnson_____________________
Author #15: John Bunyan____________________
Author #16: Samuel Pepys__________________
Author #16: Daniel Defoe___________________
Author #17: Charles II______________________
Author #18: James Boswell___________________
Author # 19: Neil Gaiman_________________
Author #20: Wolfgang von Goethe__________________