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