English 261 - SEVENTEENTH CENTURY POETRY

An exploration of the remarkable variety of 17th-century lyric poetry, which includes voices secular and sacred, witty and devout, bitter and sweet, male and female. Attention to poetic forms, conventions and imagery, as well as to response and adaptation of those forms. Particular emphasis on Donne, Jonson, Herbert and Marvell, set in the context of their time and their contemporaries.