LINKS FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Key:     **** Great Site;     *** Good Site;     ** Fair;     * Poor, probably unreliable

General Poetry, Poets, other writers--web links

***    "Luminarium"--17th Century Literature (pages on most of the writers we are reading this quarter; some pages are excellent and extremely useful; others are less so)

***    "Voice of the Shuttle" (VoS)--Renaissance & 17th Century (very complete list of WWW resources, but the links are not always kept up to date)

***    University of Connecticut--Lists of WWW Resources

****    Jack Lynch: Literary Resources--Renaissance (not as complete as VoS, but intelligently selected and usually well updated links)

Specific Poets:    John Donne

****    Luminarium John Donne Page (one of the best of the Luminarium pages)

****    Donne's Poems (1633) (excellent, high quality images of one of the truly important books of the period, complete!)

***    Short Lecture on Donne and his Followers (Jennifer Mooney)

**    Digital Musings: John Donne

***    University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of John Donne

***    Texts of Devotions and Death's Duel (sermon) and Izaak Walton's Life of Donne (from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College)

Ben Jonson

***    Luminarium Ben Jonson Page

***    University of Toronto: Selected Poetry and Prose of Ben Jonson

**    Ben Jonson Journal

***    Short Lecture on Jonson and his Followers (Jennifer Mooney)

George Herbert

***    Luminarium George Herbert Page

***    University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of George Herbert

***    Walton's Life of Herbert

***    George Herbert and The Temple

**    George Herbert Page (U. of Texas)

***    Short Lecture on Herbert and other Metaphysical Poets (Jennifer Mooney)

Robert Herrick

***    Luminarium Robert Herrick Page

***    Short Lecture on Herrick and other 'Sons of Ben' (Jennifer Mooney)

***    University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Robert Herrick

Andrew Marvell

***    Luminarium Andrew Marvell Page

***    Short Lecture on Andrew Marvell (Jennifer Mooney)

***    University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Andrew Marvell

Women Writers of the Period

****    As One Phoenix: Four 17th-C. Women Poets (Wroth, Lanyer, Cavendish, Philips: biographies, bibliographies, e-texts of selectd poems, and links)

****    Aemilia Lanyer Site (U. of Arizona) (Great site:  includes biography, bibliography, complete text of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, and links to Lanyer Listserve)

***    Luminarium Lady Mary Wroth Page

****    "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" (complete text of Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet cycle)

***    Luminarium Margaret Cavendish Page

***    Margaret Cavendish Bibliography (U. of Northern Arizona)

**    Margaret Cavendish Society

***    Short Lecture on the Swetnam/Speght/Sowernam debate (Jennifer Mooney)

***    Brief excerpt from Swetnam's "Arraignment" (J. Mooney)

***    Rachel Speght's "Mortalities Memorandum" (1621)

***    Speght's "Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617--refutation of J. Swetnam's attack on women)

***    "Ester Sowernam" (pseud.) "Ester hath hanged Haman" (1617--another attack on Swetnam)

Other Writers of the Period

***    Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning

***    Francis Bacon, Essays (1625 ed.)

****    Sir Thomas Browne Site (Excellent site at U. of Chicago--texts, information, links)

***    Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

***    Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial

****    The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive (Excellent)

Other Matters: Emblems, History, Social Background, etc.

****    The English Emblem Book Project (Penn State:  beautiful scans of emblems from major books of the period)

***    Emblem Books (an introduction)

***    German Emblem Books (good, but less relevant to us)

**    Wither's Collection of Emblems (student site with some information, poor pictures)

***    University of Glasgow Emblems Website (ongoing project, so far only Alciato)

***    Alciato's Book of Emblems (versions of the first book and its translations)

***    Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (the complete text of this essential 16th century work; unfortunately it reprints Sir Thomas Hoby's Elizabethan translation in original spelling, so it is not as easy to use as it could be)