Seventeenth
Century Literature
The course
attempts to give an overview of the broad spectrum of literature produced
throughout this conflictive period. The selection of works intends to widen our
perception of what is normally understood as literature and to engage the
students in a dialogue with other fields of knowledge that intersect with the poetical
production of the period at several points.
1. Introduction
(August 11th):
The Seventeenth Century: problems of periodization and
general context.
2. The Monarchy of
Wit (August 18th and 25th):
John Donne and conceited poetry
Poems from Song
and Sonnets
From An Anatomy
of the World, “First Anniversary”
Poems from Holy Sonnets
From Devotions
Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditations IV and XVII
3. The Development
of Prose and Science (September 1st and 8th):
Francis Bacon, from Essays.
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, “Democritus
to the Reader”.
4. Jacobean
Theatre (September 15, 22 and 29)
Ben Jonson,
From Epigrams, “To Donne”, “To
Shakespeare”, “Ode to Himself”, The
Masque of Blackness.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi.
5. The English
Civil War (October 6):
From Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Works, “Preface”.
From William Prynne, Histriomatix, “Prologue”.
From Abeizer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll, “Preface” .
6. Richard Crashaw (October 13), “On the Wounds of Our Crucified
Lord”, “The Flaming Heart”.
Richard Lovelace (October
20), “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”, “The Grasshopper”, “To Althea from
Prison”, “Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris”
7. (October 27):
Katherine Philips, “A Married State”, “Upon the Double
Murder of King Charles” “Friendship’s Mystery”, “To My Dearest Lucasia”, “Upon
the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmas”, “On the Death of My First
and Dearest Child, Hector Philips”.
Margaret Cavendish, excerpts from The
Blazing World.
8. Andrew Marvell
(October 27 and November 3).
“The Nymph Complaining for
the Death of Her Fawn”, “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Mower Against Gardens”, “Damon
the Mower”, “The Mower to the Glowworms”,
“The Mower’s Song”, “The
Garden”, “An Horatian Ode”, “Upon Appleton House”.
9. John Milton
(November 10, 17 and 24).
“L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”,
“Lycidas”, From Pardise Lost, Books I-IV,
VII-VIII, XI.
The course will be graded
with a final exam at the end of the semester.
Extra credits will be
given for attendance and engagement in the discussion.
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