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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Friday Feb 28, 2014
11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets
Friday Feb 28, 2014
Friday Feb 28, 2014
We conclude Satire 3, and talk about the difference between an aesthetics of difficulty (Donne's) and of effortlessness (e.g. Herrick and the Cavaliers). Satire 3 as promoting difficulty as promoting thought. Then on to "Batter My Heart..." and "Father, part of his double interest..." Some discussion of the NIcene Ring.
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