English 530 Spring 2018
Prof. BraudyThursday, 2-4:30
Literature and Society, 1660-1745
January 11 Tour of Clark Library
Andrew Marvell: "An Horatian Ode" (1650) “The First Anniversary” (1655), “Death of Cromwell” (1658)
John Dryden: "Heroique Stanza's" (1659)
January 18 John Dryden, "Astraea Redux"(1660) “To His Sacred Majesty” (1661) "Annus Mirabilis" (1667), Essay of Dramatick Poesy (1668)
January 25 Edmund Waller, Marvell, etc. "Painter" poems (late 1660s)
William D'Avenant: Preface to Gondibert (1650)
Thomas Hobbes: "Answer to D'Avenant's Preface to Gondibert" (1650)
Dryden, “Of Heroic Plays” (1672)
February 1 Dryden: "To My Lord Chancellor" (1662) "To my Honour'd Friend, Dr.
Charleton" (1663)
Marvell: "The Garden," "Mower" poems, "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun," "The Coronet," "Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough," "Upon Appleton House" (1650s)
Jonson, “To Penshurst” (1616)
February 8 Sir George Etherege: "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (1670s)
Rochester: "A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne," "The Advice," “The Platonic Lady," Two Songs ("Chloris"), "Letter from Miss Price," "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "A Ramble in St. James's Park," "Signior Dildo," "Tunbridge Wells" "A Letter from Artemisia" (1670-80s)
Aphra Behn: "The Disappointment" (1680)
February 15 William Wycherley: The Country Wife (1675)
Dryden, Marriage a la Mode (1673)
February 22 Marvell: "Fleckno" (1645?) "Tom May's Death" (1650)
Dryden: "MacFlecknoe" (1682?); (and Mulgrave): "An Essay Upon Satire"
Rochester: "An Allusion to Horace," "An Epistolary Essay," "On the suppos'd Authour," "The Answer," "On Poet Ninny," "My Lord All-Pride,""A Satyr on Charles II," "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind," "Timon," "Upon Nothing," “Life and Love” (1670s-80s)
Etherege: "Ephelia to Bajazet" (and response by Rochester) (1670s?)
Sir Carr Scroope: "In Defense of Satire," responses to Rochester
Etherege: The Man of Mode (1676)
March 1Dryden: "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681)selection from "The Medal," selection from "Absalom and Achitophel II"(1682)
Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved (1682)
March 8 Dryden: Poems from the 1680s and 1690s: "To the Earl of Roscommon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse" (1684); "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" (1684);"To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poésie and Painting. An Ode" (1686);"To my Ingenious Friend, Mr. Henry Higden, Esq; On his Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal" (1687); "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687"; "To Sir George Etherege" (1691); "To Mr Southerne on his Comedy called The Wives' Excuse" (1692); "To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy, call'd The Double-Dealer" (1694);"To Sir Godfrey Kneller" (1694); "An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell; Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal" (1696); "Alexander's Feast; Or the Power of Musique. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day"(1697); "To my Friend, the Author [Peter Motteux]" (1698); "To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton" (1700); "The Secular Masque" (1700)
[Suggested: Dryden: Preface to The Fables]
March 15SPRING BREAK.
March 22 Aphra Behn: Oroonoko (1688)
Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko (1697)
John Locke: First Treatise on Government (1690)
March 29John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
Daniel Defoe: "The True-Born Englishman" (1701)
Locke: Second Treatise on Government (1690)
April 5Behn: The Rover (1677, 1681)
William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)
Mary Astell, Selections (1693)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, "The Spleen" (1713)
[Suggested: Sir John Vanbrugh: The Provok'd Wife (1697)]
April 12 Alexander Pope: Pastorals (1709), "Windsor-Forest"(1713)
Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books (1704)
Pope:"An Essay in Criticism" (1711) "The Rape of the Lock"
(1712-17), Preface to the Iliad (1715)
April 19Pope: Moral Essays, "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"(1733-35)
George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)
[Suggested: Sir John Arbuthnot: John Bull (1712)]
April 26Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Pope: The Dunciad (1728-1742)
English 530 Spring 2015
Prof. BraudyTuesday, 2-4:20
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