English 382: 17th century Literature

DRAFT Reading List 2014

Please Note: All Readings are Subject to Change

From Rudrum, Alan et al (eds). The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose:

Sidney Herbert, “Psalm 52”; “Psalm 58”; “Psalm 74”; “Psalm 120”
Bacon, “Of Truth”; “Of Seditions and Troubles ; “Of Empire”; “Of Studies” (1597); “Of Studies” (1625); Aphorisms (excerpts)
Quarles, “Emblem III”; “Emblem VII”
Lanyer, “To All Virtuous Ladies in General”; “The Author’s Dream to the Lady Mary”; “To the Virtuous Reader”; Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts); “The Description of Cooke-ham”
Rachel Speght, A Muzzle for Melastomus
Donne, “The Flea”; “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning”; “The Good-Morrow”; “Holy Sonnet V”; “Holy Sonnet X”; “Holy Sonnet XIV”; “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward”; “A Hymn to God my God, in my sickness”
George Herbert, “Easter Wings”; “The Altar”; “Redemption”; “The Windows”; “Denial”; “The Collar”; “Aaron”
Herrick, “The Argument of His Book”; “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”; “The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home”; “The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad”
Ben Jonson, “On My First Daughter”; “On My First Son”
Hobbes, Leviathan (excerpts)
Cavendish, “The Hunting of the Hare”; ““I Language Want””
Vaughan, “Regeneration”; “The Morning-Watch”; “I Walked the other Day”; ““They are all gone into the world of light!””
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”; “On a Drop of Dew”; “A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body”; “The Mower against Gardens”; “The Mower to the Glow-worms”
Milton, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”