PAPER 2: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1509–1660) (3 hours)
Three of the following texts:
- *Andrew Marvell: selection of poems
- *Sir Philip Sidney: selection of sonnets from ‘Astrophil and Stella’
- *Francis Bacon: selection of prose
- Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
- Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (A-Text)
- Thomas Middleton: Women Beware Women
- William Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Ben Jonson: Volpone
- *John Donne: selection of poems and prose
All texts are set for 2022 and 2023.
*Andrew Marvell: selection of poems
- A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure On a Drop of Dew
- The Coronet
- Eyes and Tears
- Bermudas
- A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
- The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn Young Love
- To his Coy Mistress
- The Unfortunate Lover
- The Gallery
- The Fair Singer
- The Definition of Love
- The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- The Mower against Gardens
- Damon the Mower
- The Mower to the Glowworms
- The Mower’s Song
- The Garden
- An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
*Sir Philip Sidney: selection of sonnets from ‘Astrophil and Stella’
- Sonnet 1 ‘Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show’ Sonnet 2 ‘Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot’
- Sonnet 3 ‘Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine’
- Sonnet 4 ‘Virtue, alas, now let me take some rest’
- Sonnet 5 ‘It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve’
- Sonnet 6 ‘Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain’
- Sonnet 7 ‘When nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes’
- Sonnet 8 ‘Love, born in Greece, of late fled from his native place’
- Sonnet 9 ‘Queen Virtue’s court, which some call Stella’s face’
- Sonnet 10 ‘Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still’
- Sonnet 11 ‘In truth, O Love, with what a boyish kind’
- Sonnet 12 ‘Cupid, because thou shin’st in Stella’s eyes’
- Sonnet 13 ‘Phoebus was judge between Jove, Mars and Love’
- Sonnet 14 ‘Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend’
- Sonnet 15 ‘You that do search for every purling spring’
- Sonnet 16 ‘In nature apt to like, when I did see’
- Sonnet 17 ‘His mother dear Cupid offended late’
- Sonnet 18 ‘With what sharp checks I in myself am shent’
- Sonnet 19 ‘On Cupid’s bow how are my heart-strings bent’
- Sonnet 20 ‘Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly’
- Sonnet 21 ‘Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame’
- Sonnet 22 ‘In highest way of heaven the sun did ride’
- Sonnet 23 ‘The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness’
- Sonnet 24 ‘Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart’
- Sonnet 25 ‘The wisest scholar of the wight most wise’
- Sonnet 26 ‘Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology’
- Sonnet 27 ‘Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise’
- Sonnet 28 ‘You that with allegory’s curious frame’
- Sonnet 29 ‘Like some weak lords, neighboured by mighty kings’
- Sonnet 30 ‘Whether the Turkish new moon minded be’
- Sonnet 31 ‘With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies’
*Francis Bacon: selection of prose
The Advancement of Learning (Book 1) New Atlantis
Essays (1625):
- ‘Of Truth’
- ‘Of Death’
- ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’
- ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’
- ‘Of Love’
- ‘Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature’ ‘Of Nobility’
- ‘Of Discourse’
*John Donne: selection of poetry and prose (from The Major Works ed. John Carey)
- Elegy 15: The Autumnal (pp.63–4) The Flea (p. 89)
- The Good Morrow (pp. 89–90) The Sun Rising (pp. 92–3)
- Air and Angels (p. 101)
- The Anniversary (pp. 102–3)
- Twickenham Garden (pp. 105–6)
- A Valediction: of Weeping (pp. 112–13)
- A Valediction: forbidding Mourning (pp. 120–1)
- The Ecstasy (pp.121–3)
- Holy Sonnet 3 (‘This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint’) (p. 174)
- Holy Sonnet 4 (‘At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow’) (p. 175)
- Holy Sonnet 6 (‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’) (pp. 175–6)
- Holy Sonnet 10 (‘Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you’) (pp. 177–8)
- Holy sonnet 15 (‘I am a little world made cunningly’) (pp. 179–80)
- From a Sermon Preached at Whitehall (21 April 1616) [God’s Speed; Indifference] (pp. 265–7)
- From a Sermon Preached at Lincoln’s Inn (Easter Term 1620?) [Resurrection] (pp. 292–5)
- From a Sermon Preached at Lincoln’s Inn (Trinity Sunday 1620) [The Limits of Charity] (pp. 296–7)
- From a Sermon Preached on Easter Monday 1622 [Everything from Nothing; Knowledge in Heaven](pp. 310–12)
- From a Sermon Preached to the Earl of Carlisle (1622) [Hell] (pp. 318–20)
- From a Sermon Preached 1 November 1623 [Powers and Principalities] (pp. 331–2)
- From Devotions upon emergent Occasions: I Meditation, I Expostulation, XVII Meditation (pp. 333–6, 344–5)
- From a Sermon Preached before King Charles I (April 1629) [Small Stars; Made of Nothing; The Devil Shall Not Know me from God] (pp. 392–3)
- Death’s Duel – Preached before King Charles I (25 February 1631) (pp. 401–17)
