Caroline (1625-1649)

Question 1

John Milton

Answer 1

Caroline Period.

Areopagytica
Lycidas

Went blind, had to have someone else write most of Paradise Lost for him.

Question 2

Caroline Period

Answer 2

Reign of Charles I
1625 - 49 (executed in ‘49)
John Milton, Sir John Suckling,

Question 3

Paradise Lost

Answer 3

Milton
Caroline Period

In blank verse. Last of the great epics. Milton did such a good job that the epic could only resurface in the “mock epic” form, with Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock. Paradise Lost’s characters: God the Father, Jesus Christ, Satan, Adam, Eve. Satan is the most epic, titanic, charismatic character. Eve has some feminist moments. Demons: Beelzebub, Belial, Mammon, Mulciber, and Moloch. Some angels: Gabriel, Rapheal, Abdiel, Michael, Uriel. ETS asks a lot of grammar questions on Milton. Samuel Johnson once said of Paradise Lost, “None ever wished it longer than it is.”

Question 4

Areopagytica

Answer 4

Milton
Caroline Period

Against censorship. Must know evil to chose the good, and reading is the easiest and least dangerous way to learn of evil.

Question 5

Lycidas

Answer 5

Milton
Caroline Period

A pastoral elegy written on the death of Milton’s friend, Lycidas. “Thus sang the uncouth swain to th’ oaks and rills. While th still morn went out wht sandals gray; He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”

Question 6

Sir John Suckling

Answer 6

Caroline Period

Friend of Thomas Carew (writer of “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”), who was a disciple of Ben Jonson (Volpone guy). But Suckling didn’t like Jonson. Suckling was the ideal courtier poet. He headed the army for Charles I in the Scots War.