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language similar to Chaucer
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The Cock and the Fox |
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Diary-like
Visions, even more passionate than Julian of Norwich
Sacramental imagination |
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Vivid dream visions;
confessions
Does not lose touch with the flesh in the spiritual |
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identified with John the Baptist
The Lover's Confession
Looks like Chaucer, only shorter meter, typically.
Uses Ovid's Metamorphoses, the especially Tereus-Procne-Philomela story |
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| Published collection of poetry by Wyatt, Surrey and others |
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| Closet drama, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM --similar to the Duchess of Malfi, based on events in he New Testament, Herod, Hircanus, Aristobolus, etc. |
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| Similar to George Herbert: poems pervasively religious in nature |
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| URANIA; look for reversal of traditional male and female roles; female poets; justification for women ditching men |
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| John Dryden's ANNUS MIRABILIS |
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"year of wonders'; interprets the year differently than most contemporaries --as a time of trial by God: trial of the enemies of the King and to punish rebellious spirits
iambic pentameter: abab rhyme, not heroic couplets like the other Dryden poems, "Mac Flecknoe" or "Absalom and Architophel" |
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| "Hudibras": mock epic satirizing the chivalric tradition. Very funny --iambic tetrameter, rhyming couplets |
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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
Remember the dramatis personae:
Peachum, Lockit, MacHeath, Filch, Mrs. Peachum, Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit. Compares statesmen (like Walpol) to common crooks: Peachum and Lockit argue and conspire "like great statesmen, we encourage those who betray their friends." |
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| primarily known as a painter ("A Rake's Progress") but also a satirist. See "Marriage A-la-Mode," which is accompanied with his illustrations |
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| Remember his series of essays, THE RAMBLER, his criticism of Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Dryden, and other English authors, and his pragmatic poem, "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (besides the one I'VE ACTUALLY READ, "Rasselas") |
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| Wrote an autobiography on Samuel Johnson |
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inspired romantic poets
Remember the unrhymed (blank verse) meditative poem, "The Task"
Venus and Adonis poem, "The Castaway," partly inspired Coleridge's "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" |
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| husband of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; anarchist: intent on abolishing institutions including government, church, marriage, etc. |
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