III. A List of Reference Websites: The 17^th Century English Literature

A. General

u Norton Topics Online: http://www.wwnorton.com/nto/ (recommended)

u English Literature website: http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/schedule.htm (recommended)

u 文學與文化教學資料庫：http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/index.htm

u 匯文網/英國文學研究：http://lleala.nsysu.edu.tw/Chinese.htm 

u 17^th CenturyNet.net: http://www.17thcenturynet.net/(recommended)

u 17^th century literature, history, art, music, architecture, maps, illustrations, philosophy, witchcraft

B. The Metaphysical Poets:

u 1. John Donne

l The Metaphysical Poets (John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvel): recommended http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/metaphys.htm

l Representative Poetry Online: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/98.html 

l Under the Sign of Donne: (a critical essay; recommended) http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_43/ai_77400601/print

l T. S. Eliot on Donne: http://www.geocities.com/milleldred/donneliot.html 

l Some Essays of Donne Criticism: http://www.geocities.com/milleldred/ 

u2. George Herbert

l George Herbert and The Temple links (Probably the best page of George Herbert links on the Net: including his works, influence, criticism): http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/links.html  

l TheTemple:http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/george_herbert.htm (criticism, issues, research resources--recommended)

u 3. Andrew Marvell

l The Life of Andrew Marvell (biography and bibliography) http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbio.htm 

l “To His Coy Mistress” http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=Andrew+Marvell+To+His+Coy+Mistress

C: Jonson and Milton:

u 1. John Milton:

l The Milton Homepage: http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/ 

l Selected Bibliography: From Joan S. Bennett at the U of Delaware: http://www.udel.edu/UR/bennettbib.html

l Milton Reading Room: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/index.shtml (Milton’s biography and his poems Paradise Lost and other famous ones) recommended 

l  Milton Research Links: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/links/index.shtml 

l  Milton Review: http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/review.html 

l  Articles on Milton: http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/articles.html 

l Matthew Steggle’s Article “Paradise Lost and the Acoustics of Hell”: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/stegmil2.htm   

l  Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Response_and_criticism 

l Lecture on Milton's Paradise Lost: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Eng200/milton.htm  (recommended) 

u2. Ben Jonson

lRepresentative Poetry Online: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/179.html 

lJonson'sBibliography: http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/htmls/rowhtml/benjonson/BIB.HTM 

lJonson’s Biography: http://www.fact-index.com/b/be/ben_jonson.html

lStephen Griffiths’s Article “Ben Jonson’s Volpone: Black Comedy from the Dawn of the Modern Era”: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/volp-j24.shtml (recommended)

l Homosexual Tone in Volpone: http://www.123helpme.com/assets/6692.html

D: Women Writers:

u General:

l17^th century women poets: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/kurse/17c/course.htm

l17th Century Women Poets Selected Bibliography: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/kurse/17c/bibliogr.htm

u1. Mary Wroth

l Jennifer Laws’s article: "Gender and Genre in the Sonnet Sequences of Philip Sidney and Mary Wroth" http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol2no1/laws.html

l Joyce Green MacDonald’s "Review of Mary Wroth": http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/rev_mac1.html

l Mary Wroth’s “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus”: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/mary.html# (including introduction, poem, bibliography) 

u 2. Aemilia Lanyer

l Aemilia Lanyer (biography and “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum”): http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/lanyer/lanyer.htm

l “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” (poem criticism)  http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/lanyer2.html 

l Michelle Powell-Smith’s “Aemilia Lanyer: Redeeming Women Through Faith and Poetry”: http://www.suite101.com/print_article.cfm/church_history/37144 (recommended one page criticism)

u 3. Aphra Behn

l Aphra Behn and Criticism on “The Disappointment” http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/142.html 

l John Stringer’s “Poems of the Week: Aphra Behn” (a recommended article with beautiful illustrations): http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/poems_aphra_behn.htm

l The Aphra Behn Page: http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/begin-ab.htm

l Ruth Nestvold’s “Aphra Behn and the Beginnings of a Female Narrative Voice”: http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/voice.htm (a recommended short article)

l Anne-Kathrin Rochwalsky’s “Credibility and Realism in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko”: http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/rochwals.htm (recommended)

l Introduction to "The beginnings of the English novel" (University of Freiburg, 1997) http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/novel.htm

l The Aphra Behn Soceity: http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/behn/ 

E: Essayists

u 1. Sir Francis Bacon

l Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Francis Bacon: biography and criticism): http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/bacon.htm  

l Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon 

u 2. Robert Burton

l Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burton_(scholar)

l Physiology and Medicine http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/burton.html 

l The Anatomy of Melancholy: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~rlblair/burton.html

l Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy 1621

http://www.herreros.com.ar/melanco/anatomy.htm (recommended)

u 3. Thomas Hobbes

l The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (e-text and comments) http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html

l The Leviathan: Review and Conclusion (recommended) http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-k.html#AREVIEW

l SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/leviathan/ (recommended)