The course will enable the students to:
John Donne
The Sunne Rising
The Canonization
The Extasie
A Valediction - Of Weeping
A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning
The Relic
George Herbert
Prayer
The Collar
The Pulley
Life
The Flower
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
They are all Gone into the world of Light
Andrew Marvell
The Garden
The Definition of Love
The Mower’s Song
Robert Herrick
The Night Piece, To Julia
Delight in Disorder
Corinna’s Going a Maying
John Milton
Paradise Lost (Book 1)
Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. Vol. 3. Penguin, 1990.
Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets. Penguin Classics, 1960.
Harp, Richard L. Ed. Ben Jonson’s Plays and Masques. Norton, 2001.
Shawcross, John Ted. John Milton: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 2010.
Willmott, Richard. Metaphysical Poetry. CUP, 2002.