Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the economic, monarchic, and religious characteristics of Tudor rule
- Describe the reasons for the Reformation in England
- Characterize the Golden Age in England under the rule of Elizabeth I
- Analyze the causes for the growth of literature in vernacular, or native, English
- Compare Chaucer’s influence with that of Edmund Spenser’s on the development of literature in vernacular, or native, English
- Analyze the influence of classical and Italian literature on the English sonnet
- Analyze the influence of classical literature on English drama
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Recommended Reading
- 2.3: Thomas More
- 2.4: Utopia
- 2.5: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.6: Thomas Wyatt
- 2.7: "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor"
- 2.8: "My Gallery"
- 2.9: "Whoso List to Hunt"
- 2.10: "My Lute, Awake!"
- 2.11: "They Flee From Me"
- 2.12: "And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?"
- 2.13: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.14: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 2.15: "The soote season"
- 2.16: "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought"
- 2.17: "Alas! so all things now do hold thier peace"
- 2.18: "So cruel prison how could betide"
- 2.19: "O happy dames, that may embrace"
- 2.20: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.21: Queen Elizabeth
- 2.22: "The Doubt of Future Foes"
- 2.23: "On Monsieur's Departure"
- 2.24: "The Golden Speech"
- 2.25: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.26: Edmund Spenser
- 2.27: from The Faerie Queene (Book I)
- 2.28: from The Faerie Queene (Book II)
- 2.29: from The Faerie Queene (Book III)
- 2.30: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.31: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
- 2.32: "Farewell, False Love"
- 2.33: "If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme"
- 2.34: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard"
- 2.35: "The Lie"
- 2.36: "Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk"
- 2.37: From The Discorvery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
- 2.38: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.39: Sir Philip Sidney
- 2.40: The Defence of Poesy
- 2.41: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.42: Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
- 2.43: "The Doleful Lay of Clorida"
- 2.44: "To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney"
- 2.45: "Psalm 51"
- 2.46: "Psalm 55"
- 2.47: "Psalm 57"
- 2.48: "Psalm 84"
- 2.49: "Psalm 102"
- 2.50: "Psalm 150"
- 2.51: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.52: Christopher Marlowe
- 2.53: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- 2.54: Reading and Review Questions
- 2.55: 2.13.0 William Shakespeare
- 2.56: Selected Sonnets
- 2.57: Much Ado About Nothing
- 2.58: 2.13.3
- 2.59: King Lear
Thumbnail: Sir Thomas More (Public Domain; Hans Holbein via Wikipedia)
