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Donne assignments:
J 25 T Patrides' Donne Intro. and pp. 46-59 (featured poems "The Flea," "The Good-Morrow,"
"The Sunne Rising," "The Canonization"); J 27 R pp. 60-69, 73-74, 83-87 (featured poems
"Lovers Infinitenesse," "A Feaver," "Breake of Day," "The Anniversarie," "Twicknam Garden,"
"The Dreame," "A Valediction of Weeping, "Loves Alchymie"); F 1 T pp. 94-95, 97-102
(featured poems "The Apparition," "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasie"); F 3
R 105-08, 112-13, 123-24, 183-85 (featured poems "The Will," "The Funerall," "The Relique,"
"A Lecture upon the Shadow," "Elegie [XIX] To His Mistress Going to Bed"); F 8 T " VII-XII pp.
224-29 and link (featured works "Satyre III" and *Devotions* [selections]); F 10 R pp. 434-47,
454-56, 488-91 (featured poems "Holy Sonnets" I, V, VIII, X, XIII-XIV, XVII-XIX, "Goodfriday
1613, Riding Westward," "A Hymne to God My God, in My Sicknesse," "A Hymne to God the
Father")
ENRN 3130 Spring 2010 Montaigne and Bacon (readings and bios)
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For comparison purposes -- Montaigne's "To the Reader," "How the Soul
Discharges its Emotions" (excerpt), and "Of Idleness" (Cotton's printable
late-17th c. version) (French original) (M. Screech version, Limited
Preview)
Bacon's Essays *, Introduction, "Epistle Dedicatory," Essays 1-10, 12, 1920, 24, 31, 33, 36-37, 49, 54-58, and "Orpheus, or Philosophy," and "The
Idols of the Mind" (for the last, you may also compare the linked versions
found here on the syllabus; also see Bacon's excerpts on poetry and
"serious satire" [Bacon's Latin original, De dignitate et augmentis
scientiarum 7.2]). // Ordering Bacon's Essayes; also see the introduction
to the Norton's Bacon readings (NAEL B [8th ed.] 1550-51).
* Bacon's Essays in Latin, with intro., for (maybe) comparison purposes
ENRN 3130 Jonson Readings, Including Jonson Extras
-- Just For Starters, Those Extras:
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Opening as New Windows:
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In an effort to maneuver between various anthologies and still give you
a tolerable access to notes on your readings either in the Norton Bvolume, Cummings online or elsewhere, I have settled on this list of
readings, most available without notes at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbib.htm: Th Feb 25
selections from the Epigrams (Extras 1-3 along with "To My Book," "To
King James," "To William Camden," "On my First Daughter," "On Giles
and Joan," "On my First Son," "To Sir Thomas Roe," "On Lucy Countess
of Bedford," "Inviting a Friend to Supper," "An Epitaph on S. P. A Child
of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel," "To Person Guilty," and "To William Roe,"
with first readings from prose works [below]); Tu Mar 2 first selections
from Underwoods and The Forest (Extras 3-4, primarily "A Fit of Rhyme
against Rhyme," along with "Why I Write Not of Love," and "To
Penshurst"), and continued discussions of prose works; Th Mar 4 next
selections from The Forest -- Songs to Celia ("Come, my Celia" and "Kiss
me, sweet," and "Drink to me only with thine eyes"), Epode ("Not to
know vice at all"), "Her Triumph" from "A Celebration of Charis," "My
Picture Left in Scotland," "An Ode. To Himself"; Tu Mar 16 last verse
selections "To the Immortal Memory" (Cary - Morison Ode), Horace
Epode 2, "To ... Shakespeare," and "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue"
Jonson's Conversations with Drummond, ed. D. Laing (Archaeologica Scotica, 4 [1857], 24170 [rtf transcript]); ed. R. F. Patterson (1923)
Jonson, Timber or Discoveries, assigned excerpts (Toronto text) / Gutenberg, Castelain, and
Toronto texts / George Parfitt's endnotes to Discoveries (from Jonson's Complete Poems,
1975)
(Multiply the Toronto line-numbers by 1 1/2 to access the same passage as treated in Parfitt's fine
endnotes.)
Herbert Readings by class-session:
Th Mar 18 Variations on a Floorplan -- Herbert Extras 1-4,
emphasizing architectural and spatial thematics
Tu Mar 23 In Flight from / In Search of The Temple -Extras 1-4 (Variations, continued) & 5 (Breaking Into and
Out Of The Temple) along with Cummings' selections
through Jordan I (Cummings 185) *
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Th Mar 25 The World Inside and Out -- Extras 1-4
(Variations, continued) with Cummings' selections
through Jordan 2 (Cummings 193) *
Tu Mar 30 Of Arrivals and Exits -- Cummings' selections
through Love III (Cummings 207) *
* I list Cummings' selections at the bottom of Extras Page
4; you can also find them in Tobin's Index or here (itemized
list of readings by session). Cummings' notes are worth
browsing even if you do not own the book; word-search
phrases or titles at
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vi0Xe9OjFO0C.
Herbert Extras / Featured Poems from The Temple Not in Cummings
(Use "Print Preview" for single-Page printing; if you own Tobin's text, you may not need to print
Herbert Extras. )
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 (Variations on a Floorplan) with Page 5 (Breaking Into and
Out Of The Temple)
Mortality Lessons: Bearing on Herbert's richly conflicted
rejection / embrace of the senses through much of The Temple,
I give you Francis Quarles' trapped-in-skeleton emblem along a
still terser expression by Eliot of much the same mindset:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/791.html.
Robert Herrick "Extras"--Use "Print Preview" for Single-Page Printing:
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 (opt. -- "The White Island")
Opening as New Windows:
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 (opt. -- "The White Island")
Numbers following titles indicate the poem-numbers in Hesperides / Noble Numbers [1893], with corresponding page-numbers in
MacLean (M); most selections are also in Cummings.
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For the resonant restraint of Herrick's classicizing personal lyrics cf. Frost's "Nothing Gold ...," with
discussion.
Carew and Lovelace "Extras"--Use "Print Preview" for Single-Page Printing:
Carew 1 Carew 2 Carew 3 Carew 4 Carew 5 Lovelace Lovelace 2 Lovelace 3
Opening as New Windows:
Carew 1 Carew 2 Carew 3 Carew 4 Carew 5 Lovelace Lovelace 2 Lovelace 3
Relevant for Carew, Lovelace, and Behn: Sexual Golden Age subtext, from Tasso
Assigned Readings from Wroth, "Eliza," Philips, and Behn --Use "Print Preview" for SinglePage Printing:
Wroth 1 2 & 3 / "Eliza" 1 2 3 & 4 (Prose) / Philips 1 2 & 3 / Behn 1 2 3 & 4
Opening as New Windows:
Wroth 1 2 & 3 / "Eliza" 1 2 3 & 4 (Prose) / Philips 1 2 & 3 / Behn 1 2 3 & 4
Cf. Cummings Online (limited preview), Wroth, Philips ("Orinda"), and Behn (pp. 135 ff., 515 ff., 533
ff.)
--The labyrinth of love -- Petrarch (1) (2) & Wroth // The Poetics of Trial
& Error (Joyce's PAYM 1916)
-- For richer and poorer: Anglican Marriage Rite, Book of Common Prayer
(1559)
-- A working URL for that longstanding legal principle of "femme covert"
/ coverture which has several of our authors about equally stirred up
and worried:
Claudia Zaher, "When a Woman's Marital Status Determined her
Legal Status: A Research Guide on the Common Law Doctrine of
Coverture," Law Library Journal 94/3 (2002), 459-87, available as a
PDF document; see esp. 460, citing the 1848 "Seneca Falls
Declaration of Sentiments" (repr. Law, Gender, and Injustice ...
[1991] 383, app. 2), on a married woman / feme covert as "civilly
dead," since her husband's protection or "cover" at least in the eyes
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of traditional judges encompassed her very identity.
-- Relevant for Carew, Lovelace, and Behn: Sexual Golden Age subtext,
from Tasso
ENRN 3130 Final Readings (Three Sessions) -- Denham to Traherne
ENRN 313 Final Readings (Three Sessions) -- Denham to
Traherne -- Beta Version
Alpha version (outside texts, some with notes; also title-search
Cummings)
I.
Abraham Cowley Readings 1 2 & 3: Essay
"On the Dangers of an Honest Man in
Much Company"; The Garden; The
Mower Poems 3; To his Coy Mistress
III.
Henry Vaughan (bio) /// ThomasTraherne
(bio)
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