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Seventeenth Century
Background information for 17th century English literature
Term | Definition |
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1603-1625 | Reign of King James I |
1625-1649 | Reign of King Charles I |
1660 | Restoration of the monarchy |
1572-1631 | John Donne’s life |
1611 | King James Bible written |
1608-1674 | John Milton’s life |
1621 | Pilgrims leave England |
1667 | Paradise Lost |
1653-1658 | Period of Protectorate |
1678 | Pilgrim’s Progress |
King James | Was king of Scotland – known as Jacobeous |
Ptolemy | Geocentric Universe – Earth centered |
Copernicus | Proposed Heliocentric universe |
Galileo | Proved Heliocentric with telescope |
Charles I | King executed by Parliament |
William Laud | With this Archbishop, Charles I ran the church |
Thomas Wentworth | General with whom Charles I tried to rule |
Oliver Cromwell | He ran England in a “protectorate” |
Rump Parliament | Part of Parliament that voted to oust the king |
Charles II | Restored to monarchy |
Samuel Johnson | Wrote the first dictionary in English |
Sir Thomas Egerton | John Donne married this man’s niece |
Nicholas Ferrar | Published George Herbert’s poems |
Ben Jonson | He was the “father” of the cavalier writers |
Sir Thomas Fairfax | Marvell tutored this general’s daughter |
Robert Herrick | His “To the Virgins” defines cavalier |
John Milton | England’s foremost Puritan writer |
Mary Powell | John Milton’s wife – he didn’t seem to like her |
George Herbert | Famous for emblematic images |
Andrew Marvell | Transitional poet/preacher’s kid |
Protectorate | Cromwell’s government |
Richard Lovelace | Cavalier poet from prison |
Sir John Suckling | Cavalier poet who died penniless |
John Bunyan | Baptist son of a brick layer |
Masques | Elaborate plays |
Metaphysical Poetry | Attempts to explain what cannot be explained |
Metaphysical Conceit | A long metaphor . . . |
Paradox | An apparent contradiction that yields a valuable perception |
Cavalier Poetry | Sex, drugs, and rock and roll |
Emblematic Images | Verbal pictures/figures with a long history of moral/religious meaning |
Carpe Diem | Seize the day |
Tempus Fugit | Time Flies |
Ubi Sunt | A feeling of forlornness on the recollection of past glory |
Epic | A long narrative poem in elevated style |
Allegory | A story with a meaning beneath the surface meaning |
St. Paul’s Cathedral | Donne’s church -- largest in England |
Holy Sonnets 4, 6, 10 | Donne |
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” | Donne |
Meditation 17 | Donne |
“Song” | Donne |
The Temple | Herbert |
“Easter Wings” | Herbert |
“Virtue” | Herbert |
“The Pulley | Herbert |
“On My First Son” | Jonson |
“Song, To Celia” | Jonson |
“On My First Daughter” | Jonson |
“To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time” | Herrick |
“To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars” | Lovelace |
“To Althea, From Prison” | Lovelace |
“Why So Pale and Wan” | Suckling |
“The Constant Lover” | Suckling |
“To His Coy Mistress” | Marvell |
“The Garden” | Marvell |
“On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three” | Milton |
“On His Blindness” | Milton |
Paradise Lost | Milton |
Paradise Regained | Milton |
Pilgrim’s Progress | Bunyan |