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Baroque Influence in Protestant North: Metaphysical Poetry & Milton's Paradise Lost

Explore the Baroque era's impact in the Protestant North through Metaphysical Poetry and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Learn about the unique literary styles, metaphysical conceits, and significant works reflecting religious and political contexts.

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Baroque Influence in Protestant North: Metaphysical Poetry & Milton's Paradise Lost

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  1. Chapter 22 The Baroque in the Protestant North

  2. Factors • 1. the shaping influence of the Bible • 2. the rising middle class • 3. Civil War and the English Commonwealth

  3. Political contexts

  4. Netherlands 1565 The Calvinists in the Netherlands revolted against Catholic Spain (Philip II). 1609 The Calvinists set up an independent Dutch Republic (Holland) in the north. The south (Belgium) remained Catholic.

  5. Literature

  6. The Twenty-Third Psalm • Our Lord ruleth me • The Lord is my shepherd • And nothing shall be wanting to me • I shall not want

  7. The Twenty-Third Psalm • For although I shall walk in the midst of the shadow of death • Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death • Thou hast prepared in my sight a table against them that trouble me • Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies

  8. Metaphysical Poetry • A diction and meter modeled on the rough idiom of actual speech • Organized in the dramatic form of an urgent or heated argument • A subtle and often deliberately outrageous logic • Tone: realistic, ironic, cynical • “Witty”: making ingenious use of paradox, pun, and startling parallels in simile and metaphor. M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms

  9. Metaphysical Conceit • A conceit is a poetic idea, usually a metaphor.  • Metaphysical conceits are noteworthy specifically for their lack of conventionality. In general, the metaphysical conceit will use some sort of shocking or unusual comparison as the basis for the metaphor.  When it works, a metaphysical conceit has a startling appropriateness that makes us look at something in an entirely new way. The classic metaphysical conceit is Donne's comparison of the union between two lovers to the two legs of a compass in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." In Holy Sonnet 14, there are other surprising metaphors--comparing God to a violent invader and a rapist, for instance.   • http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/english/allen/donne2.htm

  10. Milton’s Paradise Lost • What’s Milton’s purpose of writing? • What’s Adam’s reaction to Eve’s fall? • Compare and contrast Satan and Adam.

  11. Christopher Wren • 1632-1723 • 1666 London fire • Saint Paul’s

  12. Rembrandt • 1606-1669

  13. Paradise Lost

  14. Temptation of Adam and EveMasolino. c. 1425. FrescoBrancacci Chapel, S. Maria del Carmine, Florence http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/5eveserpent.html

  15. Temptation (detail), Hugo van der Goes c.1470 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/vandergoes-temptation.html

  16. Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve, 1510Michelangelo. Fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/michelangelo-temptfall.html

  17. The End

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