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
*** Short Lecture on Jonson and his Followers (Jennifer Mooney)
George Herbert
*** Luminarium George Herbert Page
*** University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of George 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)
*** 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)