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The mid-17th<\/sup> century, dominated by Milton as the previous era was dominated by Shakespeare, nonetheless encompassed a crop of minor poets whose work represented a diversity of feeling and thought, theme and forms. Andrew Marvell (1621-78)was a key figure \u00a0with poems engaged with the central and interlocking themes of love, politics and religion; but a dozen or more other poets shared his taste for the subtleties and complexities of wit and the capacity to combine levity and seriousness, clarity and grace of insight with a depth of theme. The course will focus not only on Marvell but also on the work of Henry Vaughan (162?-1691), Katherine Philips (1631-1664), and Aphra Behn (1640-1689) with some reference to Anne Wharton, Anne Killigrew, John Wilmot\/ Earl of Rochester, and Thomas Traherne.<\/p>\n Poems for particularly close reading will include: Marvell \u201cTo His Coy Mistress\u201d, \u201cThe Garden\u201d, \u201cAn Horatian Ode\u201d; Philips \u201cAgainst Love\u201d, \u201cTo My Excellent Lucia, Upon Our Friendship\u201d, \u201cTo Antenor\u201d; Aphra Behn \u201cOn Her Loving Two Equally\u201d, \u201cThe Disappointment\u201d, \u201cTo the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me\u201d, Vaughan \u201cPoem: I Saw Eternity the Other Night\u201d, \u201cThey Are All Gone Into a World of Light\u201d.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading: <\/strong>Helen Gardner (ed) The Metaphysical Poets <\/strong>(Penguin); <\/strong>Germaine Greer, et al (eds) Kissing the Rod <\/strong>(Virago Press). Copies of poems for close study will be distributed before classes begin.<\/p>\n Day:\u00a0 Thursdays\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Time: 10.30-12.30<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n 8 weeks Thursday 5 October \u2013 19 October; 2 November \u2013 30 November 2023<\/strong>, with a half-term break on 26th October.<\/p>\n VENUE<\/strong><\/b>:<\/p>\n Cross Street Chapel, Please send bookings and enquiries to:<\/p>\n Barry Wood; 12 St Brannock\u2019s Road; Manchester;\u00a0 M21 0UP. Barry Wood The mid-17th century, dominated by Milton as the previous era was dominated by Shakespeare, nonetheless encompassed a crop of minor poets whose work represented a diversity of feeling and thought, theme and forms. Andrew Marvell (1621-78)was a key figure \u00a0with poems engaged with the central and interlocking themes of love, politics and religion; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5449,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5291","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5291\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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