4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne’s secular poems against fidelity

We turn to the secular Donne, in Songs and Sonnets, and look at his views of fidelity and his arguments against it.  "Woman's Constancy," "The Indifferent," "The Flea."  His way of story-telling: the backstory he expects his readers are sophisticated enough to pick up in his dramatic monologues or implicit dialogues.  Hilarity and subtlety combined.