1. March 2 2001 English 331
    1. Transition from Herbert to Jonson
      1. Love (3)
      2. Like Redemption--a surprised reversal from guilt to acceptance--true sincerity
      3. Conclusion of The Temple--end of the Bible--revelation 22:1-17
      4. Model of spiritual grace is courtly grace--salvation not gained by deserving but purely gratuitous
      5. Doctrine of Grace--Calvinist
      6. Eat and drink and love (11:05)
    2. Ben Jonson
      1. Secular poet more than divine
      2. Classical more than biblical: celebration of worldliness
      3. Courtesy and eating and drinking as aristocratic ideal
        1. Inviting a Friend to supper (11:15)
      4. Jonson man of contradictions--celebrates moderation here, but weighed 250 pounds and was drunk
        1. Like and different from John Donne
        2. Catholic and Protestant
        3. Social climber and social critic
        4. Scholar and soldier/murderer
        5. Loved a fight
      5. Penshurst--the Sidney family--aristocratic ideals
        1. The country house
        2. English houses--symbol of family
        3. False modesty--not just ambition and wealth but social grace (11:30)
      6. Jonson's mastery of language
        1. Queen and Huntress:
          1. Mellifluity of "goddess excellently bright" (11:35)
          2. To Celia
            1. Drinking and eating--love
            2. Compare to Herbert's Love III (11:45)
      7. Tributes to Shakespeare and Donne
        1. False modesty
        2. Praise and Envy/competition as central factor
        3. Celebration of poet's culture
        4. Attack on others' vices
        5. Nature and Art (11:55)
    3. Herrick
      1. To the Virgins
      2. Delight in disorder