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The Jacobean Period

The Jacobean Period was started in 1603 and ended in 1625. This age was named after King James (I) who reigned England from 1603 to 1625. The word 'Jacobean is derived the Latin version of James, 'Jacobus'. The last 5 years of the Jacobean Period were included in the Puritan Period. The poets of this period were famous for metaphysical poetry.

Some key features of The Jacobean Period:

• Elizabethan idealization of love and romance almost died out.
• Poetry took a new and startling turn.
• But drama still remained the main mode of expression.
• The dramatists of this age practised classical rules of drama.

Famous Writers of The Jacobean Period:

• John Donne (1572-1632 )
• Andrew Marvell (1621-1678 )
• Henry Vaughan (1621-1695 )
• George Herbert (1593-1633 )
• Cowley (1618-1667 )
• Ben Jonson (1573-1637 )
• John Webster ( 1580-1625 )
• Cyril Tourneur (1573-1637 )
• George Herbert (1593-1633 )
• Robert Herrick (1592-1674 )
• King James I (1566-1634 )
• George Chapman (1559-1634 )
• Thomas Middleton (1580-1627 )
• Francis Bacon (1561-1626 )
• Thomas Heywood (1574-1641 )
• John Marston (1576-1634 )
• Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881 )
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616 )

Famous Literary works in The Jacobean Period:

• The Good Morrow
• The Sun Rising
• The Canonization
• The Flea
• Twicknam Garden
• The Undertaking
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• To His Coy Mistress
• The Definition of Love
• The Garden
• An Horatian Ode
• Mount of Oliver
• The Chemist's Key
• Silex Scintillans
• The Collar
• The Easter Wings
• On the Progress of Soul
• The Temple
• Affliction
• Help Thyself and God will help thee.
• Constantia and Philetus
• The White Devil
• The Duchess of Malfi
• The Revenger's Tragedy
• The Atheists Tragedy
• Hesperides
• To Daffodils
• Of Truth
• Of Marriage and Single Life
• Of Studies
• Novum Organum
• Advancement of Learning