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date

topic

[unassigned page numbers are to Norton Anthology]

I

9/22

Course Introduction

1069-1079: "The earlier Seventeenth century"

Parry: 1-27: Stuart monarchy

9/24

Shakespeare's The Tempest as a Jacobean masque

The Tempest and Introduction by Stephen Orgel 1-55

Index of 17th Century English Literature Web Sites at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/

The Bible Browser at
http://goon.stg.brown.edu/bible_browser/pbeasy.shtml

II

9/29

The Tempest and the Bible

Steven Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible Ch.1, Ch.2 and Ch.7

Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare, The King's Playwright
Jonathan Goldberg, James I and the Politics of Literature
Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of Power

10/1

The King James Version of the Bible--Religion and Politics

Bible, King James Version:
Epistle Dedicatory
Genesis 1-11;
Genesis 22;
Genesis 37-45, 47
Exodus 1-15
Revelation 1, 3-7;
Revelation 20-22

Steven Marx, "Progeny: Prospero's Books,
Genesis and The Tempest" in Renaissance Forum 2.1 at http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v1no2/marx.htm;

III

10/6

Ben Jonson and High Renaissance Classicism

1126-1128; 1244-1253 "Pleasure reconciled to Virtue"

Parry: 42-72: Stuart culture

10/8

Jonson: words and music

1217-44 Lyrics

IV

10/13

Francis Bacon--Scepticism and Science

1257-8, 1271-80

Parry: 135-160;166-180: Science and History

10/15

Francis Bacon--Renaissance Prose

1258-1270

10/16

V

10/20

John Donne, secular

1080-1082 Intro.; poems, 1082-1103 Poems

2404-5 Samuel Johnson, "Metaphysical Wit,"

Louis Martz, The Poetry of Meditation
T.S. Eliot, "The Metaphysical Poets"
Cleanth Brooks, "The Canonization"
Steven Marx, "Teaching in the School of Donne"
John Donne at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/

10/22

John Donne, divine

971-973 Bible translations;

King James Bible:
Psalms 1-3, 6, 8;
Psalms 19, 22, 150
2 Samuel 11-13;
Canticles (also called Song of Solomon)

1103--1106; 1114-1121 Donne poems

Parry: 181-211: Varieties of Religious Experience

Gospel of Matthew;
Epistle to the Romans

VI

10/27

George Herbert, Divine

1369-1377

Helen Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert
Joseph Summers, George Herbert
George Herbert at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/

1433-5, 1457-1473 Milton

1735-1744 Lilburne and Winstanley

Bunyan 1850-1, 1856-64

Parry 82-106: The Civil War and Commonwealth

Christopher Hill, A Tinker and A Poor Man
Christopher Hill, The World Upside Down

John Milton at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/

VIII

Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution
Northrop Frye, The Return of Eden
Steven Marx, "Milton and the Quakers" http://www.multimedia.calpoly.edu/libarts/smarx/Publications/prophet.html

1414-1433

D. A. Patrides, Approaches to Marvell
Steven Marx, Youth Against Age, Introduction and chapter1
Andrew Marvell at
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/

Passages from Mary Woolstonecraft

Anne Finch 1991-95

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, 1865-1889

Hobbes 1658-67

Locke: 1755-61

Parry: 212-237 Political Theory

Parry: Postscript 237-240

1786-90; 1834-36 The Secular Masque

12/8

4-7 pm

12/11

noon