Carpe Diem Poetry
Among the new types of literature imported into England during the Renaissance was carpe diem poetry. Carpe diem is Latin for “seize ( take advantage of) the day” and this poetry dealt with
the swift passage of time and transiency of youth. Usually the speaker of such a poem was a young man, and usually he was urging a young woman to take advantage of life and love while she was
still young and attractive. The carpe diem theme, which goes back to Horace and other Roman poets who wrote verses
in Latin, achieved great popularity in Renaissance England. The reasons of it are explained by the fact that life spans were really shorter at that time. Illness, accident, war, and the executioner’s axe
killed men and women in their prime. The biographers of the English authors illustrate it by the point that Bacon was 65 when he died of bronchitis; Marlowe was 29 when he was killed; Spenser
died at 47; Sidney died because of a battle wound at 32; Shakespeare lived only 52 years. Their average age at death was 45.
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M.Bakoyeva, E.Muratova. English literature. Tashkent-2006. Pages: 46-47
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Write about literary activity of Ben Jonson.
Ben Jonson is the author of the best English satirical comedies. Among his best works are:
“Volpone, or the Fox”(1606), “The Silent Woman”, “The Alchemist”(1610), “Bartholomew Fair”.His hostility to tyrants was expressed in his tragedies “Sejanus His Fall” (Sejunus’s Fall), and “Catiline His Conspiracy” (Catiline’s Conpiracy). Ben Jonson was also a fine lyric poet. His miner poems and the songs in many of his plays are true masterpieces. But it was in the genre of satirical comedies that Ben Jonson became leader
and excelled all other dramatists. Jonson’s comic manner of depicting characters typical of contemporary life influenced the whole English literature. He was friendly with Shakespeare. King James made him poet laureate. A number of young poets of his time, including Herrick and
Lovelace respecting Jonson’s talents, called themselves the “Sons of Ben”. Among his followers we may list the novelists of the enlightenment and such writers of later periods as Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw and John Boynton Priestly
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M.Bakoyeva, E.Muratova. English literature. Tashkent-2006. Pages: 50-51
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Who were the foremost poets of the later period of English Renaissance
Shakepeare, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, Spenser, Sydney, marlo, xullas hamma mashhurlari
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M.Bakoyeva, E.Muratova. English literature. Tashkent-2006. Pages: 32-51
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