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Author of "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" 16th C
"Come live with me and be my love and
we will all the pleasures prove."
Also wrote "Tamburlaine" and "Dr. Faustus" |
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Wrote "To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
"He was not an age, but for all time!" |
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Wrote "To His Coy Mistress"
17th C
"But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near; and yonder all before us like deserts of vast eternity." |
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Wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard"
18th C
"Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." |
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"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
1800
Lucy Poem |
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Wrote "Ulysses"
mid 19th C
"Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, some work of noble note, may yet be done, not unbecoming men that strove with gods." |
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Wrote Pier's Plowman
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About Will seeks out Truth in the Field of Folk
Written in alliterative verse |
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| Arcite and Mars fight Palaman and Venus for Emily. Arcite wins and dies. |
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dainty, materialistic, sentimental
Jews kill a Christian boy; he continues to sing after his throat is slit. |
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| Chaunticleer the rooster is kidnapped by Sir Russel the fox. Chanticleer gets away when the fox opens his mouth to brag |
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In debt, only concerned about money/ business
Knight January is old and blind. His young wife, May, cheats on him, but when his sight is restored, May says she did it to cure him. |
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preposterous, married five times, feminist
The answer to what women want: sovereignty |
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drunk, coarse, ugly, huge, beard
A cuckold is tricked into sleeping on his roof in a bathtub while his wife consorts with various suitors |
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thin, vain, pretty boy, trickster
Three drunkards search for Death but instead find a treasure, over which they murder each other over. |
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Wrote The Faerie Queen.
Created the Spenserian stanza- nine line stanza with a ababbcbcc pattern, last line is an alexandrine |
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Wrote many poems, poems are very different in style over time; change from a focus on love to a focus on religion
Thomas Carew wrote a poem celebrating his clear, beautiful prose |
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Wrote "Paradise Lost"
odd sentence structure |
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Wrote "Pilgrim's Progress"
Christian goes on a search to find the Celestial City |
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Wrote "Absalom and Achitophel" - Absalom is the son of David but is killed. Achitophel aids him in rebellion.
Also wrote "Mac Flecknoe" the mock epic about Thomas Shadwell |
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Wrote Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal
Lilliput=small Brobdingnag=big Struldburgs=immortal Houyhnhmns rule the Yahoos Laputa=island |
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Wrote The Dunciad and The Rape of the Lock
Both are mock epics
The Rape of the Lock concerns a haircut Arabella gives Lord Petre
The Dunciad attacks bad poetry, especially that of Colley Cibber, who is represented as Bayes- the poet laureate of Dullness |
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| Consisted of Swift and Pope, dedicated to the ridicule of folly |
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| Samuel Johnson and James Boswell |
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Johnson wrote Rasselas about the Prince of Abyssinia's quest of a "choice of life"
Boswell wrote a gushing biography of Johnson |
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| Wrote the Castle of Otranto, first gothic novel written |
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Wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho
Creates the "gothic explique" |
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| Wrote a response to Wordsworth regarding Lyrical Ballads |
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| Written by Coleridge, argues that the imagination is the supreme faculty of the human intellect |
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| Herman Melville's Moby Dick |
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| Ishmael= narrator, Queequeg, Dashoo, and Tashtego= harpooners, Pequod= ship, Starbuck= first mate |
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| Wrote Sartor Resartus (The Tailored Reclothed) Teufuldrockh the wanderer lives in Weissnichtwo. Everlasting No and Yea. Work concerns the relationship between outward appearances and inner essences |
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| Wrote "Pro Vita Sua" about his conversion from the Anglican faith to Catholicism |
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| Founder of Utilitarianism, Wrote an Autobiography, On Freedom, and The Subjection of Women |
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| Calls on the Greeks as the ideal models of virtue and culture, Attacks "philistinism" |
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Coined the term "pathetic fallacy"
Wrote "The Stones of Venice" |
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| A speech addressed to someone not present, or an abstraction |
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| A work, especially a poem, written to celebrate a wedding |
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| A poem about the virtues of farming life |
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| Bad Poetry as used by Samuel Butler |
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| Double negative understatement |
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| A form of humorous poetry, using very short lines and a pronounced rhythm, used by John Skelton |
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| One stressed syllable can make up a foot, used by Hopkins |
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| A term referring to phrases that suggest an interplay of the senses |
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| Terms for a phrase that refers to a person or object by a single important feature |
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