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Gillespie Final
Gillespie pick me!
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English
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2008

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John Dryden
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Absolom and Achitophal Mac Flechnoe; An essay of dramatic poesy
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Hamartia
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tragic flaw
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memoirs of martin scriblerus
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satirical work-pope/swift
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Essay on Criticism
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1st major poem by pope, heroic couplet
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vanity of human wishes
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Samuel Johnson: Christian values are important to living properly.
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Cordelia
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daughter of lear
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Gloucester
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noble who is loyal to elar
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Sonnet Sequence
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Shakespeare:ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Spenser:ABABABCBCCDCDEE
Sidney:ABABABABCDCDCDCDEE
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Spiritual Autobiography
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Non fiction prose, dissenters; state of damnation to a state of grace, John Bunyans-Grace abounding/Robinson Crusoe.
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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Paradise Lost-Book 9
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The tragic Fall
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Houyhnhnms
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Super Awesome horses
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Brobdingnagian
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Giant
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Peripeteia
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Reversal of Fortune
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The temple
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George Herbert: where the "The Altar" can be found
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Lilliputians
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Very small people
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Laputa
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Flying Island
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Lord Peter and Arabella Fermor
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Rape of the Lock is based off of this work.
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Lives of the poets
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Samuel Johnson; short biographies of 52 poets
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Sentimental
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Stimulating emotions
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In medias ris
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Narrative Starts in the middle of the story: Iliad + Odyssey.
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Milton's divorce tracts
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Arguing for divorce on the grounds of incompatibility
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Areopagitica
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Milton's tract against censorship
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Poet Laureate
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Poet appointed by government to compose poems for state functions
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Lord Chamerblains men
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Company of Actors that later became the king's men.
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King's Men
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Formerly the Lord Chamberlain's men
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Kenning
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Replace a normal word like 'ocean' with one such as "whale road"
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Anorgnorisis
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recognition
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Hesperides
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Nymph's who tend a blissful garden mentioned by milton in paradise regained.
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George III
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King during the American Revolution
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Bolton's Mom
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Think of it like guitar hero II at a party, everyone gets all they want.
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Aristotle
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Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of such emotions. . . . Every Tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality—namely, Plot, Characters, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Melody.”
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Dictionary
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Samuel Johnson published a dictionary, many of his words can be seen in Rasselas.
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1674
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year both John Milton and Robbert Herrick died
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St Paul School
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Milton went for 4 years. John Donne was dean for 3 of those 4 years.
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Matchless Orienda
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What Katherine Phillips admirers called her, she referred to herself as Orinda in her poetry
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John Donne
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"The Flea"-pick line poetry, Carpe Diem, "Sun rising"-love doesn't depend on time
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Estate Satire
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purposeful, occasionally judgmental (mostly of the clergy) satire, and (apparently) incidental descriptions intermingled. (he is making fun of the different estates of people on the pilgrimage in
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Robert Herrich
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Arguemnt of his book-oxymoron
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EAT YOUR BABIES
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Jonathan swift-modest proposal
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George Herbert
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Altar-have a hard heart; let your love be an altar
Jordan-Poetry doesn't have to be pretty to be good.
Religious poetry.
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Mary Wroth
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Sonnet I-point of view the woman captured by love
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Ben Johnson
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Inviting a friend to supper-
Evening of compainship with a good friend, whatever is said is in confidence. (No homo)
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Rosecruitian spirits
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the fairy/sprite thingys in the rape of lock. Some explanations for then are in the text for the rape of lock.
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Catherine Phillips
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a married state-about getting married and how much it sucks
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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
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Mary Wroth, woman writing a sonnet sequence poem
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Execution of Charles I
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Executed him as a traitor to the nation during the English Civil War, many of our poets were Royalists (Tories) and did not support Cromwell (puritan leader who lead Parliaments forces against Charles) such as Robert Herrick.
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