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09 January 2025

B - The one with virtue AND coyness.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did the Jacobean employ rhetoric?

Learners share their prepared readings from last class. We discussed that a dramatic reading doesn't necessarily make rhetoric good, but it helps!

We read together and discuss Herbert's "Virtue" and "Easter Wings."

Then, for contrast (and for fun), we read and discussed Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." I spoke briefly about carpe diem poets and suggested that Marvell used devices of rhetoric to persuade his coy mistress.

NEXT CLASS: Marvell's use of rhetoric, cavalier poets

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