The document provides an overview of 17th and 18th century English literature. It discusses the turbulent yet polite time period and the rise of genres like the novel and satire. It also intensified focus on the self and personal life. It then provides a brief biography of Andrew Marvell, a metaphysical poet of the time period. It notes some of his famous poems, including "To His Coy Mistress."

1. 17TH AND 18TH
CENTURY ENGLISH
LITERATUREProf. Javen G. Babac Jr.

2. INTRODUCTION
◦ 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:
1. Religion
2. Science
3. Politics
4. Domestic Relations
5. Culture

3. INTRODUCTION
◦ The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were
both turbulent and polite.
◦ It was an age of:
1. Virtuosos and Pretenders
2. Libertinism and Enlightenment
3. Reason and romanticism
◦ It witnessed the rise of the novel, the birth of
the modern encyclopaedia, the cult of
sensibility and the crafting of some of the
sharpest satire in English.

4. INTRODUCTION
◦ The 17th and 18th Century English
Literature intensified the focus on and
analysis of the self and the personal life.

5. Andrew Marvell
(31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678)
◦ He was an English metaphysical poet and
politician who sat in the House of Commons at
various times between 1659 and 1678.
◦ As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with
John Donne and George Herbert.
◦ He was a colleague and friend of John Milton.
◦ His poems include To His Coy Mistress, The
Garden, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's
Return from Ireland, The Mower's Song and
the country house poem Upon Appleton
House.

6. Bio Montage

7. Group Work
◦ Group 1 – Type of Work
◦ Group 2 – Title
◦ Group 3 – The Persona, Setting,
Characters
◦ Group 4 – Theme and Summary
◦ Group 5 – Meter and Rhyme

8. To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

9. To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

10. To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.