Daily Handouts

ENGL 520

Dr. Fike

 

First Day Materials

 

First day remarks

 

Historical chronology

 

Suckling and Wroth handout

 

Historical notes on Adams's book

 

PROSE

 

Religious Prose

 

John Bunyan

 

Sir Thomas Browne

 

Jeremy Taylor

 

Psychological/Secular Prose

 

Sir Thomas Browne

 

Robert Burton

 

Burton handout

 

John Locke

 

Sir Francis Bacon

 

Cavendish

 

POETRY

 

Religious Poetry

 

John Donne

 

George Herbert

 

Henry Vaughan

 

Thomas Traherne

 

Secular Poetry

 

John Donne

 

Ben Jonson

 

Robert Herrick

 

Andrew Marvell

 

THREE MAJOR EVENTS

 

The Civil War and the Politics of Religion

 

The Civil War

 

Thomas Hobbes

 

Hobbes's Frontispiece

 

Colonialism

 

Various selections

 

The Great Fire

 

Various selections

 

Painting of London Fire

Drama

Volpone

 

The Rover

Novel

Aphra Behn