Eng 22 UCSB Final Hiltner Questions and Answers 100% Verified
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Eng 22 UCSB Hiltner
The Description of Cookeham - ️️-Written by Aemilia Lanyer for Lanyer's patron
Margaret Clifford
-Country-house poem literal (rather than allegorical) pastoral
-Describes a community of women (homosocial group)
-Poem celebrating invigorating effects the Countess has on the estate and mourns...
Eng 22 UCSB Final Hiltner
The Description of Cookeham - ✔️✔️-Written by Aemilia Lanyer for Lanyer's patron
Margaret Clifford
-Country-house poem literal (rather than allegorical) pastoral
-Describes a community of women (homosocial group)
-Poem celebrating invigorating effects the Countess has on the estate and mourns how
her departure causes it to wither.
-echoes Virgil's Eclogue 1, as the exiled speaker develops and attempts to
communicate an environmental consciousness
-(women are the exiled group)
Cooper's Hill - ✔️✔️Sir John Denham (1642, 1654)
-One of the most popular English poems of the 17th century
-It allegorically dealt, in the form of an imagined stag hunt, with the beheading of King
Charles I in 1649
-First loco-descriptive poem in English
-Gestures to a variety of environments: the panoramic view from Cooper's Hill includes:
urban and country, St Paul's cathedral, london, windsor castle, st annes hill, thames
river, windsor forest, and washland meadow.
-Inaugurated the hill poem genre
Aemilia Lanyer - ✔️✔️-Shakespeare's contemporary (his dark lady)
-Protofeminist
-England's first professional woman writer (via patronage)
-Mistress of Henry Carey (Queen Elizabeth's cousin)
Protofeminist - ✔️✔️Women that anticipated modern feminist concepts before
feminism was popular/known (pre 20th century)
"Hills, vales, and woods, as if on bended knee They had appeared, your honor to
salute" - ✔️✔️-Cookeham
-Anthropomorphic and anthropocentric
Anthropocentrism is often ___________ to ecocentrism, though it need not be -
✔️✔️opposed
To Penshurst - ✔️✔️Ben Johnson (1616)
-Competed with Shakespeare as a playwright
- Pastoral country-house genre
-Penshurst house is lost in the environment
Horace Epode II, The Praises of a Country Life - ✔️✔️Ben Johnson
, -Speaking about the pleasures of man and not users of the land.
As You Like It - ✔️✔️Shakespeare (1599-1600)
-Second attempt at pastoral play
-urban audience would perceive the rural countryside as a locus amoenus.
-He sets out in As You Lik it to reveal that our perceptions of the environment are not
only influenced by works of art like pastoral literature, but that these perception differ
widely
Forest of Arden - ✔️✔️Real forest in Warwickshire England
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" - ✔️✔️Shakespeare's first attempt at a pastoral play
-presents a simplified and idealized view of pastoral life in the country
John Donne - ✔️✔️-The Anniversaries
The world is but a carcass, we are worms made by and fed by the carcass
As you like it vs the two gentlemen of verona - ✔️✔️As you like it presents pastoral life
from a variety of perspectives
-in act two, members of the Duke senior's court -including the duke- sing about the
forest of arden, and it is clear they see it in different ways
As you like it - ✔️✔️Makes us aware that we all see the environment differently.
Loco-descriptive - ✔️✔️"Topographical" provides lush descriptions of specific locales
-come to the scene as country house poems die out because it isn't moored to an
estate. It is a more general purpose form of nature writing.
-Is a form of pastoral without obligatory inclusion of shepherds and sheep
-It still pastorally gestures toward an environment
Loco-descriptive literature - ✔️✔️-writers provide increasingly vivid and longer
descriptions of the environment
-Therefore, nature poetry is becoming more representational and less gestural
-these works gesture to, rather than lavishly describe and represent (often to the owners
of these places) familiar and nearby places.
-ie. if a nature guide walking with us tried to describe the countryside we are viewing it
would be redundant because we can see it and might even distract from the
environment itself.
Loco-descriptive poets attempt to effectively describe what may never be visited.
Hence, literature from the early modern period onward is is going to become more
_______________ and less ____________, as the imagined reader may not, and as far
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