Satire Flashcards
When were Donne’s satires written, roughly?
c.1595
When was Donne’s satire ‘Upon Mr Thomas Coryat’s Crudities’ written?
c.1611
What does Richard Sugg say about the implications of early modern anatomy on metaphysical attitudes towards the body?
‘increasingly, a once cosmically meaningful organism is spiritually hollowed and neutralized, into an entity which talks only about itself’
What does Donne’s satire 2 say about plagiarism?
‘if one eate my meat, though it be knowne / The meat was mine, th’ excrement is his own’
What does Donne’s satire 2 say about poetry as illness?
‘Though Poetry indeed be such a sinne / As I thinke that brings dearths, and Spaniards in, / Though like the Pestilence and old fashion’d love / Ridingly it catch men’
What does Donne’s satire 2 say about the abundance of writing?
‘all write’
What does Donne’s satire on Thomas Coryat say about anatomy?
‘Worst malefactors… / do publike good cut in Anatomies. / So will thy book in pieces’
What is ‘Beware the Cat’ referred to as in the anonymous poem?
‘a sick mans bloud’ and ‘Streamers excrement’
When was Marston’s ‘Scourge of Villanie’ published?
1598
When was the Bishops Ban on satire introduced?
1599
What does satire 7 in Marston’s ‘Scourge of Villanie’ refer to sin as?
‘the slime that from our souls do flow’
What does Marston say in satire 2 from ‘Scourge of Villanie’ about his inability to stay silent?
‘Who can abstaine? What modest brain can hold’?
What does satire 7 in Marston’s ‘Scourge of Villanie’ refer to his subject as?
‘He’s but a sponge, and shortly needs must leese [release] / His wrong gut juice, when greatness’s fist shall squeeze / His liquor out.’
What does satire 1 in Marston’s ‘Scourge of Villanie’ refer to exposition in satire as?
‘his honesty / Shall be as bare as his Anatomy’
When was Joseph Hall’s ‘Vergidemiarum’ published?
1597-8
