Lucy Hutchinson Order and Disorder

Date

5 cantos printed anonymously 1679

Full 20 cantos published 1817

What was O+D

verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis

What was Hutchinson known for up to O+D

1st person to translate Lucretius’ DRN to english - O+D as corrective to this misdemeanour

ardent puritan and calvinist

is there any evidence that Hutchinson knew Milton

composed epic as early as 1660-4 - unlikely

How does Hutchinson demonstrate her republicanism in O+D

strong anticourt and antimonarchical sentiments but expressed in biblical epic

What is the metre of Order and Disorder

heroic couplets

How is Hutchinson more theologically conservative than Milton

constructs orthodox trinity - ‘all coeternal, all coequal are’

What does she criticise of other biblical poets in the preface

‘adoring figments of their own brains, instead of the living and true god’

What does Hutchinson devote cantos 6-20 to in her epic and what is Milton’s alotted books to this topic correspondingly

the tragic consequences suffered by ‘th’unhappy race of sinful man’

JM - B11, B12

How does Hutchinson reflect on ideals of godly female modesty

through detailed representations of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel

Contrasting contemporary women to biblical women

‘Great ones lived not like slothful drones as now’

name another biblical epic

Abraham Cowley Davideis 1656 - about troubles of David and his early epic