Tribe of Ben Jonson

 

(Cavalier) they followed the King and so liked Monarchy, the opposites of Puritans

 

The Tribe of Ben Jonson was wits who were also called the idle poets

- they wrote mostly about women, they were idle because their work wasn’t really important.

 

1-     John Suckling ‘Song’

2-     Robert Herrick ‘Upon Julia’s Clothes’

3-     Richard Lovelace ‘Grass Hopper’

4-     Thomas Carreu   ‘The Rapture’

 

 

 

Devotional Poets

 

These talk about god a lot

 

1-     George Herbert

2-     Richard Crashaw

3-     Henry Voughan

 

 

ROBERT HERRICK VS GEORGE HERBERT

 

Robert Herrick 1591 – 1674

- His sonnet sequence was called ‘Hesperidins’ and it was filled with Rhetoric.

- It was playful and erotic

 

George Herbert 1593 – 1633

-          He was a pious religious man.

-          His sonnet sequence was called The Temple