English Literature

Unit III: The Renaissance

Week 14
Please read:

"Theme: Carpe Diem", p. 268.

Ben Jonson:
For a fairly complete collection of Jonson's works, check here at the Luminarium site.

• "Still to Be Neat", p. 270.
• "On My First Son", p. 270.
• "Song, to Celia", p. 270.

Richard Lovelace:
For a fairly complete collection of Lovelace's works, see the Luminarium site here.

• "To Althea, from Prison", p. 274.
• "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars", p. 274.

Robert Herrick:
For a fairly complete collection of Herrick's works, follow this link to the Luminarium site.

• "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", p. 275-6.
• "Delight in Disorder", p. 276.
• "Upon Julia's Clothes", p. 276.

Andrew Marvell:
For a fairly complete collection of Marvell's works, follow this link to the Luminarium site.

• "To His Coy Mistress", p. 289-90.
• "Bermudas".

For some other contemporary poets, you may like to follow these links to further resources at the Luminarium site, in particular:

• Sir John Suckling
• Thomas Carew
• Henry Vaughan.

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