English Literature

Week 14

Please read:

“Theme: Carpe Diem”, p. 268.

Ben Jonson:

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

Richard Lovelace:

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

Robert Herrick:

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

Andrew Marvell:

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

Optional extra reading:

For more material from these and other contemporary poets, you may like to investigate further resources at the Luminarium site, in particular:

• Ben Jonson
• Richard Lovelace
• Robert Herrick
• Andrew Marvell
• Sir John Suckling
• Thomas Carew
• Henry Vaughan