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