Today’s Agenda:

1. Today’s Agenda: • If Essay 2 was submitted last Weds, it’ll be returned Weds (if “turnitin”-ed by this Tues.) • Return Quizzes • Mention homework • Presentations: • Justin Fair: Bacon’s biography • Miriam Uc: Milton’s biography • Group Activity on 17th C poetry • If time, go over key points from Sir Francis Bacon & from Milton’s Areopagitica

2. Group Activity • What aspects of the poem seem characteristic of its author? • What parts of the poem do you like or find interesting? • Group 1:Donne’s “The Flea” (p. 1263) & “The Sun Rising” (p. 1266) • Group 2:Herrick’s “The Vine” (p. 1655-6) & “Delight in Disorder” (p. 1656) • Group 3: Herrick’s “Corinna’s…” (p. 1658-9) & “To the Virgins…” (p. 1659-60) • Group 4:Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (p. 1704-5) • Group 5:Herbert’s “Easter Wings” (p. 1609) & “Jordan (2)” (p. 1615-6) • Group 6:Milton’s “When I Consider…” (p. 1828)

3. Homework: • Read John Milton’s Paradise Lost,Book 1 (pp. 1830-50) • Do the Reading Response question on 17thC Writers • The next quiz will be next Monday—it’s on key points/quotes on Bacon and Milton covered in class today and Wednesday. Presentation Next Class: • Whitney Almstrom: Artistic representations of Milton’s Paradise Lost