Late Renaissance

Late Renaissance

1. Jacobean Age

   • Historical aspects and social background
     • Happened during the reign of James I
     • Period of visual literacy art
       • Architecture
         • characterized by a combination of
           • motifs
           • perpendicular gothic architecture
       • Painting and sculpture
         • That was minimized because there were no prominent personalities except,
           • Isaac Oliver
   • Literature
     • It was dark in mood, questioning the stability of the social order.
       • Worried with the beliefs of something supernatural like gods and evil.
     • Comedy
       • comedy was tha acid satire of Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher
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     • Poetry
       • The amazing verse of Jonson, in prose with Francis Bacon and Robert Burton.
       • Shown toughness and flexibility of style.

2. Writers in Jacobean age

   • John Donne
     • He led the metaphysical poet. He is considered the greatest love poet in English literature.
       • 1. Paradox and problems. 2. "For Godsake hold your tongue and let me love" 3. Parting from one's beloved is death. 4. The apparition
     • Masterpieces:
   • Francis Bacon
     • Master in English tongue; remembered by the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen esaays
     • Works:
       • 1. The commentarius soluts. 2. Novum Organum
   • Thomas Middleton
     • Consider as a dramatist, who drew people as he saw them with comic gusto, or searching irony.
     • Masterpieces:
       • 1) Women beware women. 2) The changeling. 3) A fair Quarrel

3. Caroline Age

   • Historical aspects and social background
     • A civil war between occurred, which divided people into friction."Cavaliers" and "roundheads" reason why in 1642 the theatre was closed.
     • Oliver Cromwell emerged as a Puritan leader and came to power in 1649
     • In 1649 The King Charles was executed by the puritans.
     • The Caroline age is the age of poetry on political, economic, social and love aspects.
   • Caroline is derived from "Charolus" the Latin version of "Charles" is part of the puritan age.
     • Cavalier Poetry
       • It is straightforward and refined.
         • Poems centered on sensual, romantic, and loved. It is Genre poetry based on seizing the day and enjoying life.
       • Cavalier poets:
         • They were members of the aristocrasy wrote in the 17th century and they supported King Charles I.
           • Writers such as:
             • John Milton
               • He was a passionate lover of beauty, a puritan poet is a humanist in nature.
                 • Works:
                   • 1) On the morning of Christ's Nativity. 2) L'Allegra. 3) II penseroso
             • 1) Richard Lovelace. 2) Thomas Carew. 3) Sir John Suckling. 4) Edmund Waller. 5) Robert Herrick
     • The metaphysical Poetry and poems
       • It is caracterized by the personal and intellectual complexity
         • Metaphysical poetry is less concerned with expressing feelings. The poets explored the recesses of his consciousness
       • Metaphysical poets
         • literacy devices useb¿d by poets (obliquity, irony, and paradox) are reinforced dramatic language and by rhythms derived from that of living speech.
           • Writers such as
             • 1) Henry Vaughan. 2) Andrew Marvell. 3) George Herbert. 4) John Cleveland. 5) Abraham Cowley. 6) Richard Crashaw

4. Writers in Metaphysical period

   • George Herbert (1593-1633)
     • He was a British religious poet and notable for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words.
       • Poems
         • 1) A picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul. 2) The Temple. 3) The Church Porch. 4) The Church Militant.
   • Andrew Marvell
     • He opposed to Oliver Cromwell's commonwealth government. Reason why his poetry was published until 20th century for his political reputation
       • poems.
         • 1) Upon Appleton house. 2) The garden. 3) Mower poems. 4) The rehearsal
   • Henry Vaughan
     • He was a notable poet and mystic remarkable for the range and intensity of his spiritual intuitions.
       • poems
         • 1. the tenth satyre of juvenal Englished. 2) Silex Scintillans. 3) Mount of Olives. 4) Solitary Devotions.

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