Herrick and Marvell Notes, Sonnet 30 & 75, Whoso List to Hunt, Death be Not Proud, On His Blindness Flashcards
(Herrick) Herrick was raised by a … mother, graduated from …, became a …, and produced a … just like …. did
widowed; Cambridge University; clergyman; single volume of poems; George Herbert
(Herrick) Herrick was born into the …, and Herbert was born into the …
prosperous merchant class; aristocracy
(Herrick) Herrick was an … to his uncle, who was a London … and …
apprentice; goldsmith; jeweler
(Herrick) Herrick didn’t enter the university until he was …, which was considered a late age at the time, and left when he was …
22; 29
(Herrick) After leaving university, for the first several years, he enjoyed himself in London as a member of … of …
Ben Jonson’s circle; young friends
(Herrick) the serious part of Herrick’s life did not begin until he was
38
(Herrick) At 38, he was called a parish in …, in …, far from London, in the “…” which Londoners habitually regarded as … and …
Dean Prior; Devonshire; West Country; wretched; barbaric
(Herrick) According to some of herrick’s poems, being in Dean Prior was an …., and according to others, it was ….
intolerable exile; heaven on earth
(Herrick) Herrick’s stay in Dean Prior came to an end in 1647 with the arrival of …, which deprived him of his … and substituted in his place a clergyman of a more … stripe
Parliamentary Army; parish; puritanical
(Herrick) When the … was restored about 13 years later, so was …, and he lived on at Dean Prior until he died at the age of …
King; Herrick; 83
(Herrick) While deprived of his parish and living in London, Herrick published a fat little book containing … poems, with the title …
1399; Hesperides, or the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick
(Herrick) Less than a fourth of the poems fit in the … category, and these are mainly witty verses on … and …; all the rest of the poems are definitely “…”
divine biblical characters; events; human
(Herrick) The word Hesperides in the title is borrowed from …; it is the collective name for the … who live in a … somewhere in the …, where they watch over a … that bears … The title implies that Herrick’s book is a …. full of …
classical mythology; sisters; garden; West; tree; golden apples; garden; precious things
(Herrick) Herrick was so steeped in Latin poetry that he frequently wrote his poems as if he were an …., imposing pagan …, …, and … on the English country people and his own household
ancient Roman; customs; creeds; rituals
(Herrick) He imitated the Latin …, especially …, when he addressed poems to … with such classical names as …, …, …, …, and … But regardless of how erotic he sounds, Herrick knew only … ladies; never a breath of scandal touched his own bachelor life
poets; Catullus; beautiful women; Julia; Corinna; Perilla; Anthea; Electra; imaginary
(Marvell) Marvel was the son of a … who sent him to …
clergyman; Cambridge University
(Marvell) Poet John Milton, who was not easily …, said that Marvell was “… in the … and …”
impressed; well read; Greek; Latin classics
(Marvell) He traveled for a time on the …
continent
(Marvell) there is no record of Marvell’s having been involved in the great … of the 1640’s
upheaval
(Marvell) Marvell seems to have survived the … without belonging to either the … or the … side
Civil War; Royal; Parliamentary side
(Marvell) Around 1650, Marvell became a tutor to …, an … and a daughter of …, who had served as … of the …
Mary Fairfax; heiress; Sir Thomas Fairfax; Lord General; Parliamentary armies
(Marvell) The Fairfaxes had several large estates, one of them at a place called …, and there Marvell wrote a remarkable long poem, “…”
Nun Appleton; Upon Appleton House
(Marvell) Marvell did not … his poems and wrote only for his friends’ and his own …
publish; entertainment
(Marvell) Marvell presumably wrote his best poems at the
Fairfax household
(Marvell) Marvell became tutor to a ward of …, the … and virtual … of England in the 1650’s
Oliver Cromwell; Lord Protector; dictator
(Marvell) In 1657, he became assistant to …, who needed help in carrying out his duties as …. because he was ..
John Milton; Latin Secretary to the Council of State; blind
(Marvell) When King Charles II was restored and the Commonwealth government dissolved in 1660, Marvell somehow had enough influence with the … to …
Royalists; save Milton’s life
(Marvell) Under …, Marvell became attentive in … and served until his death as … for his native city, …
Charles II; politics; Member of Parliament; Hull
(Marvell) At this point in his career he did begin to publish … against his … and … on issues of the day. But his lyric poems remained in manuscript until after his …, when his housekeeper, who called herself … and claimed to be his …, … to a …, who brought them out
verse satires; political opponents; prose pamphlets; death; Mary Marvell; wife; sold them; publisher
(Marvell) Marvell’s posthumous volume, called …, made little impression when it appeared in 1681. Styles in poetry had changed after 1660, so that Marvell’s witty, ingenious … must have seemed old-fashioned to readers who admired the …, … poems of John Dydren and other … writers
Miscellaneous Poems; metaphors; lucid; rational; Restoration
(Marvell) To many judicious critics, his poems seem to sum up much that is admirable in … Like Jonson, he is a master .., always in control of his materials.
Renaissance lyric poetry; craftsman
(Marvell) His poems have the …, …, and … associated with the “…”
precision; urbanity; lightness of touch; sons of Ben