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BRIT LIT
29
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Undergraduate 2
03/12/2007

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Lamb
Tyger
London
Definition
Blake
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The world is too much with us
Definition
Wordsworth
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England in 1819
Definition
Shelley
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Definition
Byron
-Byronic Hero: not good or evil, but passive and selfish
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A Spirit's Return
Definition
Hemens
(He dies, she wants to. Turn from worldly events to personal events. "Glimpse of joy divine. The moment reveals the grand scheme.)
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Definition
Recollection in tranquility
Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
Binds passion and knowledge
Wordsworth
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Definition
Wordsworth
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
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Wordsworth
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Wordsworth
Definition
I Traveled Among Unknown Men
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Kubla Khan
Definition
Coleridge
(vision, fragment, drugs. Desire to live in imagination, real world hurts)
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Ozymandias
Definition
Shelley
(ruins in the desert and old Egyptian King. Never create immortality, prideful, Shelley is a prideful bitch)
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Definition
Keats

Spontaneity in tension with posterity
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Eve of St. Agnes
Definition
Keats
Madeline and Porphyro
Gothic elements
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Definition
Keats
(woman seduces and then leaves)
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Cristabel
Definition
Geraldine/Cristabel

Coleridge
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Rime of Ancient Mariner
Definition
Coleridge
-Whether hypnotic power of literature is a good or bad thing
-Relates to real language of men
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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey
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Wordsworth
-Nature and sublimity
-sublime reconciles us to nature
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Mont Blanc
Definition
Shelley
-can't control nature
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Ode to a Nightingale
Definition
Keats
-wants to be a nightingale's song
-we can't escape life, unlike this bird
-can't cheat the sublime
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Sense and Sensibility
Definition
Sense: common sense. No emotions. Elinor. Edward
Sensibility: Emotions. Marianne. Willoughby. Captn. Brandon.

No normative characters
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Mariana
Definition
Tennyson
I am aweary aweay i would that i were dead
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The Kraken
Definition
Tennyson
-Millennial growth
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The Lady of Shalott
Definition
Tennyson
-work is delight
-desire to break
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Break, Break, Break
Definition
Tennyson
-cant connect with anything
-loss of faith
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Lotus-Eaters
Definition
Tennyson
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Porphyria's Lover
Definition
Browning
-He kills her
"And yet God has not said a word"
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My Last Duchess
Definition
Browning
-painting
-helped destroy the idea that poetry must be communicative or expressive in a conventional sense
-psycho characters
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Dover Beach
Definition
Arnold
-withdrawal of faith
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Goblin Market
Definition
Rossetti
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