The+Renaissance

=The Renaissance Period=

[|Renaissance Preview]
 * Overview of the Renaissance**


 * Renaissance background PDF**

[|History Worksheet]
 * Renaissance background worksheet**

[|Renaissance Poetry Notes]
 * Renaissance Poetry**

[|The Sonnet Form]

Read: Milton background pg. 518

Answer the following questions for each piece in your notes (save on your computer).

Type of Sonnet: For Italian/Petrarchan sonnets Octave: What is the problem? (summarize) Sestet: What is the solution? (summarize) For Shakespearean sonnets: summarize each: Quatrain (3) Couplet

Sonnet 1, 35, 75 (pg. 254, 256) Sonnet 29, 130 (pg. 275, 278)
 * Sonnets**

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" pg. 266 "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" pg. 268
 * Pastoral Poetry**

"The Bait" "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" pg. 484 "Meditation 17" pg. 488 [|Meditation 17 Text]
 * Metaphysical Poetry**

“To The Virgins To Make Much of Time” (p. 510) “To His Coy Mistress” (p.507) “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” (p. 563) “To Althea, From Prison” (p. 564)
 * Cavalier Poetry**


 * Paradise Lost (pg. 524-534)**

Bacon


 * Renaissance Review**
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