English civil war
War during the Puritan age
Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan
England’s greatest allegory
Paradise Lost by Milton
England’s greatest epic
Charles 1
Reigning monarch during Puritan age
Couplet
George Herbert used the _____ in his anagram poem
Waller
Created the couplet
Herbert
Known for his saintly life and intense devotion to God
The Collar
Poem about transformation from rebellion to submission
The Anniversary
Poem about the eternal love of a couple
The Now
Poem that describes the importance of the past and present
John Milton
Greatest poet of the time and second greatest writer in English lit
John Milton
Wrote Paradise Lost
John Bunyan
Wrote Pilgrim’s Progress
Oliver Cromwell
Led the Roundheads
To the Virgins, to make much of time
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying”
Robert Herrick
Used “Carpe Diem”
To Althea, from Prison by Lovelace
“Stonewalls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage”
To Lucasta, going to the war by Lovelace
“I could not love thee (deare) so much, lov’d I not honor more”
Metaphysical poets
Expressed devotional themes and emphasized the complexities and contradictions of life in their poetry
The Bait by Donne
A response to Marlowe’s “passionate shepherd” poem
Metaphysical conceit
Points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar element
John Donne
First and greatest of the metaphysical poets
George Herbert
Most important Meta. Poet (saintly life/intense devotion to God)
Wonder
Poem that shows idyllic reflections of spiritual childhood
Thomas Ken
A hymn writer, doxology, and “Now”
23
How many sonnets did Milton write
Lycidas by Milton
England’s greatest pastoral elegy
Marvell
Milton’s assistant, also combines elements of meta.
and cavalier poets. Wrote “On Paradise Lost” and “to his coy mistress”
Cavalier poets
Shallow writers of the age
John Donne
Wrote: The BaitA Hymn to God the Father The Anniversary (2 years!) Reunification Meditation 17 A Valediction: forbidding Mourning
Meditation 17
“No man is an island, entire of itself” “Never send to know for whom the bell rolls; it tolls for thee” Ex. Book and island
A Valediction
Compares his and his wife’s souls to the two points of a compass which are forever joined even though forced apart
George Herbert
Writes about his own anxiety of his relationship with God
The Pulley by Herbert
Expresses mans need for rest
Traherne
Wrote Wonder, reflecting child like spirituality
Traherne
Wrote: Wonder On Christmas Day
The Constant Lover
Shows the irony of a mans love for 3 days
Herbert
Wrote some poems in shapes
Robert Herrick
Wrote “To the Virgins, to make much of time”
Waller
Wrote “Go, lovely Rose”
Lovelace
Wrote:To Althea, from PrisonTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Herbert
Wrote: *AnagramBittersweetLove*The PulleyDiscipline *The Collar
Vaughan
Combines love of nature with mysticism. Wrote “Friends Departed” and “Peace”
Crashaw
Wrote “An Epitaph”
On his having arrived at the age of twenty three
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!”
In Defense of Books by Milton
Warns about restricting books
The Bait by Donne
“For thou thy self art thine own bait”
The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet by Wither
“Shall I wasting in despair die because a woman’s fair?”
Suckling
Wrote the constant lover
