The Renaissance

The Renaissance This Presentation * is divided into two sections (Pt. 1 & Pt. 2); each dealing with a poet who represents the English Renaissance (late 15th C. to early 17th C.) * introduces the Renaissance era (cultural and literary aspects). * presents a discussion of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 & Donne’s “The Good Morrow” and “Death Be Not Proud”. English Renaissance ( 1485-1625) The Renaissance Originated in Italy (14th C.) influences: Greece & Roman Cultures authors: - European Renaissance artists: *Dante wrote The Divine Comedy *Petrarch wrote lyric poetry in the form of sonnets *Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, and scientist in England: 15 (end of the War of Roses)-17th Cs. *Philip Sidney wrote the first Elizabethan sonnet cycle: Astrophel and Stella *Edmund Spenser wrote a long epic, The Faerie Queen, in Spenserian stanzas *Christopher Marlowe popularized pastoral verse (idealizes the rural life) - Elizabethan era was the height of English Renaissance Time Line Humanism: Mankind was believed capable of earthly perfection. Optimism: the belief that life was improving for the first time in anyone’s memory printing Press The emergence of the middle Class Nationalism * _______________________________ -Literature (poetry) of the Renaissance focused topics which relate to religion, classic antiquity, scholarship and politics. Sonnets also became very popular. Other poetic forms that were popularized were the lyric, the elegy, the tragedy, and the pastoral. Near the close of the English Renaissance, John Milton composed his epic Paradise Lost, widely considered the grandest poem in the language Shakespeare (1564-1616 ) Elizabethan poet and playwright 38 plays & 154 sonnets Other Poems Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and the Turtle A