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English 2302 Test 4 TVCC Palestine
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wrote poetry at the age of five
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Alfred Tennyson
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attended Trinity College, Cambridge
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Alfred Tennyson
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influenced by Romantic era, Keats in particular
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Alfred Tennyson
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wrote sensuous poetry
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Alfred Tennyson
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poetry about acceptance of duty, social responsibility, and pain
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Alfred Tennyson
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poet Laureate of England (after wordsworth)
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Alfred Tennyson
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knighted for his work
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Alfred Tennyson
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"Idylls of the King"
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Alfred Tennyson
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"Maud"
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Alfred Tennyson
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"The Princess"
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Alfred Tennyson
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"Crossing the Bar"
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Alfred Tennyson
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learnd several modern languages Latin, Greek
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Elizabeth Browning
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first poem printed at 13 years of age
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Elizabeth Browning
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permanent invalid
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Elizabeth Browning
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ran off to Italy to escape father
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Elizabeth Browning
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poetry characterized by fervent moral sensibility
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Elizabeth Browning
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used visionary modes of romantic narrative poetry
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Elizabeth Browning
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most famous poet while alive
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Elizabeth Browning
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philosopher and religious teacher
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Robert Browning
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popularized the dramatic monologue
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Robert Browning
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modeled poetry after shelly
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Robert Browning
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"intense and morbid self consciousness"
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Robert Browning
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"Aurora Leigh"
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Elizabeth Browning
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"the cry of the children"
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Elizabeth Browning
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"sonnets from the Portuguese"
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Elizabeth Browning
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"my last Duchess"
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Robert Browning
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"Proferias lover"
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Robert Browning
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fond of social life in England
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Robert Browning
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character as "the literary puzzle of the 19th century"
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Robert Browning
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"but none of the odd ones have been so great and none of the great one's been so odd"
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Robert Browning
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buried Westminster Abbey
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Robert Browning
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style different than most Victorian poets -more colloquial and discordant
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Robert Browning
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energy is his defining aspect
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Robert Browning
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"the ring and the book"
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Robert Browning
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born in Duplin Ireland October 16, 1854
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Oscar Wilde
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died at Paris France November 30, 1900
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Oscar Wilde
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early noted for casual brilliance, passion for Hellenic culture
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Oscar Wilde
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famous for many appearances ( sunflowers, peacock feathers, blue china, long hair, green carnations)
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Oscar Wilde
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leader of London's art for arts sake school of aesthetics
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Oscar Wilde
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famous for epigraphs,paradoxes, witty statements
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Oscar Wilde
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married Mary Lloyd, fathered two sons
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Oscar Wilde
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imprisoned in London
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Oscar Wilde
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"the picture of Dorian Gray"
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Oscar Wilde
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"the Duchess of padua"
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Oscar Wilde
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"the ballad of reading Gaol"
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Oscar Wilde
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"the importance of being Earnest"
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Oscar Wilde
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"Lady Windermere's fan"
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Oscar Wilde
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