Today’s Agenda:

1. Today’s Agenda: • Return Quizzes • Explain homework • Reminder: Last Class—King Lear • Questions of Order, “The Great Chain of Being” • Brief overview of early 17thC—poets, politics, science: ideas of order. • See the Order/Disorder PowerPoint online (under The 17th C). • Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” • A prime example of idealistic, conservative views of order Presentations: • Natalia Diryawush: Jonson’s biography (1247, 1324-26) • Nadia Khoshaba: Metaphysical poetry (1248) • Examples of some of John Donne’s most striking metaphysical conceits.

2. Homework: • Read George Herbert (pp. 1605-06): “The Altar” (p. 1607), “Easter Wings” (p. 1609), “Jordan (1)” (pp. 1611-12), “Jordan (2)” (pp. 1615-16); Robert Herrick (pp. 1653-54): “The Vine” (pp. 1655-56), “Delight in Disorder” (p. 1656), “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” (pp. 1658-59), “To the Virgins” pp. (1659-60); Abraham Cowley (pp. 1687-88): “Ode: Of Wit” (pp. 1688-90);Andrew Marvell (pp. 1695-97): “To His Coy Mistress” (pp. 1703-04). • Quiz Next Class. It’s on these pages: 1235-36, 1242-43, 1254-55 and on anything emphasized in today’s class, especially striking images from Donne’s poems. • Essay #2 is due Weds, Nov 17th. It’s on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, andits instructions are posted online. Also, we’re using Turnitin.com (the ID & Password info are online, next to Essay #2’s instructions). Presentations Next Class: • Jillian Kraut: Charles I, Cromwell, the Interregnum, and the Restoration • Reeta Chand: George Herbert