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| his highest job was as lord chancellor (highest judicial position in England) |
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| father of the English essay |
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| died from bronchitis while studying refrigeration |
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| his intended audience was educated people |
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| a great proponent of inductive reasoning |
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| admitted to accepting bribes |
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| believed in the perfectibility of the human |
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| Everything in the universe is made up of only matter |
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| all knowledge is gained through sensory impressions |
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| Cause and effect governs everything in the universe |
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| Humans' primary goal is to seek self-preservation and power to secure that goal |
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| served as Bacon's amanuensis (secretary) |
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| quarreled with some royalist founders and therefore was not invited to join the Royal Society |
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| traveled a lot and therefore was educated with experience, meeting many philosophers |
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| All humans are roughly equal and possess equal hopes of attaining goods |
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| In the state of nature, everyone is continually at war with each other and life is horrible and short |
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| humans escape continual quarrel with each other by forming covenants with each other to establish a sovereign government |
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| translated the Iliad and Odyssey at 68 years old |
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| What were the four things that Hobbes' treatise deals with? |
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| 1) nature of human beings 2) creation of the state 3) proper subordination of the church to state sovereignty 4) "kingdom of darkness" (Catholic Church) |
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| many of his poems were published by a woman after his death (the woman claimed to be his widow but was probably his housekeeper). |
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| grew up in Yorkshire, attended Trinity College, and converted to Catholicism |
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| tutored Thomas Fairfax's 12-year old daughter |
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| • Joined the blind Milton as the Latin secretary to Cromwell’s Council of State |
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| went twice on diplomatic missions to Holland and Russia |
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| "The Rehearsal Transprosed" |
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| his famous quote: "to a green thought in a green shade" |
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| • Many of his poems explore the human condition in terms of fundamental dichotomies that resist resolution |
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| the most devoted of the Sons of Ben |
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| served as chaplain to various noblemen |
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| the vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire |
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| • “the good life”: love void of passion; pleasures of food, drink, and song; delight in the beauty of surfaces; and the creation of poetry as ballast against the ravages of time |
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| Proclaimed himself the future author of a great English epic |
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| often alludes to crisis in his own life in his works |
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| Students at Cambridge called him “the Lady of Christ’s College” |
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| his father was a scrivener |
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| Latin Secretary to the commonwealth government and Cromwell’s Protectorate, meaning that he wrote the official letters to foreign governments and heads of states |
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| converted from Catholicism to Protestantism for career reasons |
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| was born in London and began life as an outsider |
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| "Biathanatos": a paradoxical defense of suicide |
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| went out with his boss' daughter |
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| his uncle conspired with the Jesuits |
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| Metaphysical poet who used 1) metaphysical conceit as an unusual metaphor (vehicle=science) 2) paradox 3) irregular/uneven line length 4) irregular rhythm |
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| translated Montaigne's essay into English |
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| his reasoning associated him with humanism, which is that man is good, not evil |
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| Had 12 children through a secret marriage with a 16 year old |
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| he would dress in funeral clothes |
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| wrote epigrams and lyrics and joined the army and was a blacksmith |
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| "Noble Numbers": a book of religious poems with 400 short poems (many of them carpe' diem) |
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| Poems about Celtic mythology stand in for the forbidden by the Laudian Church |
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| his poems threatened the Puritans, who opposed the book of sports |
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• Contained metamorphosis concepts
• Creation of poetry as ballast against the ravages of times |
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| Wrote mostly love lyrics and pastorals |
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| WROTE PARADISE LOST WITH MILTON |
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• Love poems
o Between flesh and spirit
o Sex and love |
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| He was a big advocate of free speech, but he didn’t want it for the Catholics |
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| Was a troubled child: suspended from college during first semester |
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| Wrote his poetry in Latin |
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| • WROTE SUCCESSFULLY ON CHURCH GOVERNMENT, DIVORCE, EDUCATION, AND REPUBLICANISM |
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| "Lycidas": his greatest funeral elegy |
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| "A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING" |
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| (sonnet) “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee” |
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| (sonnet) "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you” |
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| "Of Marriage and Single Life" |
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