6V Literature - Renaissance texts

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Literature

RENAISSANCE TEXTS

Today's plan

• Re-cap of last week's seminar
  
• 16th Century Love Sonnets
• Sonnet LXXV (from Amoretti) by Edmund Spenser

Who is this?

1. Henry VII
2. Henry VIII
3. James I
4. Edward I

Who is this?

1. Queen Elizabeth I
2. Gloriana
3. The Virgin Queen
4. Queen Mary I

When was the Church of England established?

1. 1485
2. 1534
3. 1558
4. 1603

How did the English Civil War end?

1. Oliver Cromwell was beheaded
2. A peace treaty was signed
3. King James I was beheaded
4. The archbishop was beheaded

Which motto fits the Renaissance best?

1. Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
2. Memento mori
3. Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam
4. Carpe diem

Introductory note

• Italian origin
• Petrarch
• Idealizing beauty and virtue of poet's beloved 
• Poet's pain of being unable to be with her
• Sonnet form
• Second half 16th century
• Early years 17th century

Amoretti

• First published in London in 1595
• Cycle of 89 sonnets
• Elizabeth Boyle
• Sonnet LXXV > "anthologized poem"

Sonnet LXXV + assign. 5

• Listen to a reading of Sonnet LXXV
  
• Work together on assignment 5
  
• 10 minutes

Evaluation

• Why is a poem like this still read a lot?
• Do you like it? (Why (not)?)