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This course paper is devoted to the description of The 17th century of English Literature), its impact to the English speaking countries.
The aim of the work is to present an overview of The 17th century of English Literature), and the impacts and positive results.
The tasks of the investigation include:
- to review the role of early 17th century literature in English literature;
- to review the role of William Shakespeare in English literature;
- to analyze Literature of the 17th in English language literature;
-to suggest practical exercise in mastering the knowledge related to 17th century in English literature;
The main language material of the work has been gathered from the Internet sources, literary works and the textbooks in English literature of various authors. Thus, writers, their works, the evidence of modernity in words, their definitions and examples in which the words are used, are taken from the authentic English sources, so that the evidence of the research results could be doubtless.
The theoretical and practical value of the paper lies in its applicability to the English literature, and practical English classes.
The structure of the work consists of the Introduction, four plans, conclusion and the bibliography.
An allied science to17th century is related to English literature which also studies their art, the evidences of their impacts to readers and the inner structure of the work
Early Seventeenth Century
The earlier seventeenth century, and especially the period of the English Revolution (1640–60), was a time of intense ferment in all areas of life — religion, science, politics, domestic relations, culture. That ferment was reflected in the literature of the era, which also registered a heightened focus on and analysis of the self and the personal life. However, little of this seems in evidence in the elaborate frontispiece to Michael Drayton's long «chorographical» poem on the landscape, regions, and local history of Great Britain (1612), which appeared in the first years of the reign of the Stuart king James I (1603–1625). The frontispiece appears to represent a peaceful, prosperous, triumphant Britain, with England, Scotland, and Wales united, patriarchy and monarchy firmly established, and the nation serving as the great theme for lofty literary celebration. Albion (the Roman name for Britain) is a young and beautiful virgin wearing as cloak a map featuring rivers, trees, mountains, churches, towns; she carries a scepter and holds a cornucopia, symbol of plenty. Ships on the horizon signify exploration, trade, and garnering the riches of the sea. In the four corners stand four conquerors whose descendants ruled over Britain: the legendary Brutus, Julius Caesar, Hengist the Saxon, and the Norman William the Conqueror, «whose line yet rules,» as Drayton's introductory poem states.¹
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¹ [Carlson, Thomas. “Biographical Warfare: Silent Film and the Public Image of Poe.” Mississippi Quarterly,Vol. 52, No. 1, 1998, p. 5. Literature Resource Center.]
Yet this frontispiece also registers some of the tensions, conflicts, and redefinitions evident in the literature of the period and explored more directly in the topics and texts in this portion of the NTO Web site. It is Albion herself, not King James, who is seated in the center holding the emblems of sovereignty; her male conquerors stand to the side, and their smaller size and their number suggest something unstable in monarchy
and patriarchy. Albion's robe with its multiplicity of regional features, as well as the «Poly» of the title, suggests forces pulling against national unity.
Also, Poly-Olbion had no successors: instead of a celebration of the nation in the vein of Spenser's Faerie Queene or Poly-Olbion itself, the great seventeenth-century heroic poem, Paradise Lost, treats the Fall of Man and its tragic consequences, «all our woe.»²
The first topic here, «Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies,» provides important religious, legal, and domestic advice texts through which to explore cultural assumptions about gender roles and the patriarchal family. It also invites attention to how those assumptions are modified or challenged in the practices of actual families and households; in tracts on transgressive subjects (cross-dressing, women speaking in church, divorce); in women's texts asserting women's worth, talents, and rights; and especially in the upheavals of the English Revolution.
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² World Book Encyclopedia. – Chicago, London, Sydney, Toronto: A Scott Fetzer Company, 1995, 26 volumes.
«Paradise Lost in Context,» the second topic for this period, surrounds that radically revisionist epic with texts that invite readers to examine how it engages with the interpretative traditions surrounding the Genesis story, how it uses classical myth, how it challenges orthodox notions of Edenic innocence, and how it is positioned within but also against the epic tradition from Homer to Virgil to Du Bartas. The protagonists here are not martial heroes but a domestic couple who must, both before and after their Fall, deal with questions hotly contested in the seventeenth century but also perennial: how to build a good marital relationship; how to think about science, astronomy, and the nature of things; what constitutes tyranny, servitude, and liberty; what history teaches; how to meet the daily challenges of love, work, education, change, temptation, and deceptive rhetoric; how to reconcile free will and divine providence; and how to understand and respond to God's ways.
The third topic, «Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture,» provides an opportunity to explore, through political and polemical treatises and striking images, some of the issues and conflicts that led to civil war and the overthrow of monarchical government (1642–60).³ These include royal absolutism vs. parliamentary or popular sovereignty, monarchy vs. republicanism, Puritanism vs. Anglicanism, church ritual and ornament vs. iconoclasm, toleration vs. religious uniformity, and controversies over court masques and Sunday sports.
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³ Smith, Dave. “Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode.” Southern Humanities Review, vol. 29, No. 1, 1995, pp. 1-10. Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, edited by Lynn M. Zott, vol. 117
The climax to all this was the highly dramatic trial and execution of King Charles I (January 1649), a cataclysmic event that sent shock waves through courts, hierarchical institutions, and traditionalists everywhere; this event is presented here through contemporary accounts and graphic images.
Smith, Dave. “Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode.” Southern Humanities Review, vol. 29, No. 1, 1995, pp. 1-10. Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, edited by Lynn M. Zott, vol. 117
The Renaissance
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