ENGL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Toleration, Divine Providence, Dramatic Monologue
25 Dec 2016
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Reading notes - to his coy mistress, an horatian ode. Was the son of a church of england clergyman: grew up in yorkshire, attended trinity college, cambridge (where he might"ve picked up neoplatonism in his poetry from the platonists at cambridge) During the years of the civil war: traveled to france, italy, holland, and spain, much later, said that the puritan cause was too good to have been fought for. Poetry: oldest poems associate him with royalists, however, his poetry after 1649 celebrate the commonwealth and oliver cromwell. Recognizes divine providence in political changes: characterized by dramatic monologues. Often voiced by named, na ve personas who somewhat stand in for the author. He accepted the restoration: but maintained his own independent vision and his abiding belief in religious toleration, a mixed state, and constitutional government, antiroyalist polemics. Include several verse satires on charles ii and his ministers. Themes: explore the human condition, in terms of fundamental dichotomies that resist resolution.
