ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mercantilism, To His Coy Mistress, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Medieval wandering musicians : troubadour: particular form of love they celebrated. Adolescent love, heart pounding, chivalry: heroic love, grandiose. Default to romantic love, not other kinds of love. Worlds first love poem: 8th century bce babylonian: sexual love, romantic, and divine love, plays around with conventions. George herbet, love : communion with god, divine love, supreme god, then comes home to dinner, the wife, and sexual arousal, uses all loves in one. Elizabeth barrett browning how do i love thee? : starts grand, soul reaches. Backtracks by day work, like a child loves something: runs into trouble at the end, when she says god must be loved more. Anglo-saxon riddle, 10th century ad: about onions love of onions. Shakespeare"s sonnet 17: to another man, his masculine patron. Love poem written to patrons, as appreciate: using conventions of love poems as a way to talk about a different relationship. To a patron to support you financially.
