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Alexandrine

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A line of iambic hexameter

EX: Spenser

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Alliteration

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Use of repeated consonant or sound at the beginning of a series of words

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Allusion

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Reference

EX: “Call me Ishmael!”

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Antagonist

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Main character opposing the protagonist, villain

EX: Iago

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Anthropomorphism

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Assigning human traits to animals, plants, or objects – different from personification bc it occurs throughout the work

EX: Aslan in Chronicle of Narnia

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Apostrophe

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Speech addressed to someone not present or addressed to an abstracted idea – prone to parody

EX: “History! You will remember me.”

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Bildungsroman

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Coming of age tale, from innocence to experience

EX: Catcher in the Rye

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Caesura

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Pause that breaks an OE line in half

EX: Beowulf

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Decorum

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Neoclassical principle of drama – a character’s speech should reflect their social status

EX: Oscar Wilde

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Doggerel

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Bad poetry

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Epithalamium

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A poem written to celebrate a wedding

EX: Spenser’s “Epithalamium”

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Euphamism

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Writing that is self-consciously laden with figures of speech

EX: Polonius

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Feminine rhyme

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Lines ended with final two syllables rhyming

EX: “running” and “gunning”

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Flat vs. round characters

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Est’d by E.M Forrester

Flat= same dominant trait, never change
Round= complex psychological profile
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Georgic

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People laboring in countryside – NOT pastoral

EX: Virgil’s Georgic is about the virtues of farming

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Hamartia

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Aristotle’s “tragic flaw” that is determined by fate

EX: Oediupus

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Homeric epithet

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Repeated descriptive phrase

EX: “the ever-resourceful Odysseus”

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Hudibrastic

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Samuel Butler’s Hudibras – couplets of rhymed tetrameter lines

EX: Bad poetry, limericks

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration

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Litotes

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Understatement created by use of double negative

EX: “no ordinary”

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable

EX: “know” and “snow”

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Metonymy

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Referring to a person or object using a single important feature

EX: “the pen” and “the sword”

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Neoclassical unities

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Dramatic conventions derived from Aristotles poetics
Time
Place
Decorum
Action

EX: a play must be set over the course of one day in one place, to unify time and place of audience and play with no subplots – all unified

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Pastoral elegy

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Lament for the dead sung by a shepherd

EX: Milton’s “Lycidas” and Shelley’s “ Adonais”

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Pastoral literature
A work with shepherds in the country or nature EX: Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
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Pathetic fallacy
Ascribing emotion to inanimate objects EX: "cruel crawling foam"
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Personification
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics EX: Emily Dickinson's train "laps" the miles
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Picaresque
Adventure story about a rogue who wants to eat and stay out of jail EX: Huckleberry Finn
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Protagonist
Main character,usually the hero
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Skeltonics
Humorous poem with short rhymed lines, created by John Skelton -- better than doggerel Best for satire/comedy Stomping
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Sprung rhythm
19th-c poetry created by Gerard Manley Hopkins Length of lines determined only by stressed syllables, unstressed not counted EX: "Pied Beauty" -- study this one more
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Synesthesia
Interplay of senses EX: "tasting green"
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Synecdoche
Phrase that refers to a person or object by a single important feature EX: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws."
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Voice
Perspective from which a story is written
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First person POV
Narrated using "I" Narrator may be the protagonist or an omniscient speaker who is not a clear character May be multiple "I"s
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Third person POV
Refers to subjects using he/she/it | May be omniscient or limited
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Second person POV
Author uses "you" | Reader is an active participate
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First person plural POV
Author uses "we" | Reader and author are together
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Ballad rhyme
Typical stanza of folk ballad Length of lines determined by stressed syllables Rhyme scheme abab EX: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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In memoriam rhyme
Stanza composed of four lines of iambic tetrameter rhyming abba EX: Tennyson's "In Memoriam"
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Ottavia Rima
Eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter rhyming abababcc
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Rhyme royal
Seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc
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Spenserian rhyme
Nine-line stanza First 8 lines iambic pentameter Final line in iambic hexameter (alexandrine) Rhyme scheme ababbcbcc EX: Created by Spenser for The Fairy Queene
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Terza Rima
``` 3-line stanzas with interlocking rhyme schemes: aba bcb cdc ded... etc. ``` EX: Divine Comedy
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Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Free verse
Unrhymed verse with no meter
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OE verse
Verse with internal alliteration and midline pause (caesura) EX: Beowulf
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Italian/Petrarcha sonnet
14-line poem First 8 lines are the octave: abbaabba Final 6 lines are the sestet: cdecde EX: Milton "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
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English/Shakespearean sonnet
14-line poem 3 quartets: abab cdcd efef 1 couplet: gg EX: any Shakespearean sonnet
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Spenserian sonnet
14-line poem Rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee EX: Spenser "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand"
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Villanelle
19-line poem Rhyme scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa First and third lines repeated throughout the poem EX: Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
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Sestina
``` 39-line poem 6 stanzas of 6 lines Final stanza of 3 lines (envoi) No rhyme scheme 6 repeated end words ``` EX: Rudyard Kipling's "Sestina of Tramp-Royal"
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Literature of the Absurd
Drama and prose works that claim common sense and the human condition is essentially absurd Post WWII EX: Kafka's Metamorphosis, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Eugene Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" & "The Lesson," Camus & Sarte existentialism, Tom Stoppard "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"
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Aesthetic ideology
Paul de Man described the seductive appeal of the aesthetic experience Form & meaning, perception & understanding, cognition & desire become conflated Argued that lit solves this problem because readers can't confuse perception with understanding, etc.
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Aestheticism
``` 1800s France Revolt against reason "Art for art's sake" Roots with Kant Developed by Baudelaire ```
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Affective fallacy
Error of evaluating a poem based on its effects on the reader -- "impressionism and relativism" Argues in favor of objectivism
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Allegory
Historical/political Personification of abstract ideals (virtue, etc.) Story representing another story EX: The Fairy Queene, Pilgrim's Progress, Gulliver's Travels (also satire)
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Fable
Also apologue Short narrative that enacts abstract moral principles through physical characters Ends with a conclusion (epigram) Most common is beast fable EX: Brer Rabbit
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Parable
Short narrative about human beings to give a lesson EX: Jesus
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Exemplum
Stories told in theme of religious sermon EX: Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale"
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Proverb
Short pithy statement of widely accepted truth
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Epic invocation
Call to divinity/muses to inspire/bless a work of art
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Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock Most famous mock-heroic Based on true events Belinda "An Essay on Criticism" - known for witty mockery, not scathing or serious
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End-stopped
When a line of poetry ends in punctuation or a natural pause
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Enjambment
When a line of poetry ends mid-sentence or clause, and the idea continues into the next line
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Iambic hexameter
Alexandrine
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Criticism by Yeats
Known for symbolism, late 19th-c
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Criticism by Matthew Arnold
``` Known for humanism "Sweetness and light" Analyzes classical literature Wrote Culture and Anarchy Argued that art should provide a moral center Not funny Victorian ```
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Criticism by Coleridge
Known as poet for Rime of Ancient Mariner Romantic poet/hero Interested in imagination, ways of creating/reading
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Poetic inversion
Reverse of typical word order (e.g. when a noun comes before an adjective)
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Hephaistos
Created the shield of Achilles
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Athenians
Built the Parthenon
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Daedalus
Created the labyrinth to contain the Minotaur that protects Midas
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Epeuis
Built the Trojan Horse
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J.M. Synge
Irish playwrite Known for The Playboy of the Western World Immorality of the Irish working class
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Yeats
Known for poetry (The Second Coming) but also a playwrite | The Countless Cathleen, play about selling souls for food during the Irish potato famine
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O'Casey
Irish playwrite Known for The Plow and the Stars Nationalism and poverty in Ireland
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Oscar Wilde
Known for novels | Also a playwrite known for Salome, about John the Baptist
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Shaw
Irish playwrite known for Mrs. Warren's Profession | prostitution
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Humanism
Lit crit arguing for culture as a moral center Matthew Arnold famous 19th-c critic Irving Babbitt contemporary critic
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Structuralism
20th-c criticism Meaning found w/in text Key words: center, textual, structural
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Post-structuralism
Deconstruction Allows for multiple simultaneous readings Key words: slippage, signifiers, heteroglossia (Bakhtin) Derrida most famous
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Pyschoanalytic
Freud, Lacan | Key words: un/consciousness, oedipal
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Poe's only novel about a stowaway
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James Fenimore Cooper
American fiction Leather-Stocking Tales Narrator is a do -right nature lover named Natty Bumpo Also known for Last of the Mohicans
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David Copperfield
Dickens semi-autobiographical novel about child abuse -- the main character is continuously sent off to boarding schools and prison Uriah Heap= Iago type Micawbers= nice old friends
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The Adventures of Augie March
Bildungsroman by Saul Bellow set in depression era Chicago
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Scheherazade
Narrator of The Thousand and One Arabian Nights | Frame narrative, continuously interrupted by Sultan
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Mephistopheles
Demon of Faust myth | Versions by Marlowe, Goethe, Thomas Mann
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Raskolnikov
Murderer of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
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Mr. Lockwood
First narrator of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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Sancho Panza
Fat, likeable narrator of Don Quixote
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Lycidas
Milton | Pastoral elegy
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"Caliban Upon Setebos"
Browning | Dramatic monologue
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Absalom and Achitophel
Dryden Allegorical poem using biblical figures to represent religious upheaval (Catholic v. Protestants, King v. Parliament) David= Charles II (Dryden prefers)
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Charles Lamb
``` Friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge Used pen name Elia Essays of Elia Tales from Shakespeare (children's book) Antiquarian Early 19th-c ```
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Heroic couplets
aabbcc, etc. | Each set of 2 lines rhymes
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Native Son
Richard Wright | Main character's name is Thomas Bigger
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Kate Chopin
Known for The Awakening Set on the beach Pontellier and Labrun Women as property of men
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Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre | Rochester is the male main character with crazy wife in attaic
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Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Lily Bart Set in NYC Shares an elaborate interiority with Henry James
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Known for North and South English society Critique against social conditions in 19th-c England
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Robert Browning
My Last Duchess Use of enjambed heroic couplets Dramatic monologue Murderer adulterous wife
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The Dubliners
James Joyce Last chapter "The Dead" about Gabriel watching his wife hear music on the stairs Joyce as an exile
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Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness Lord Jim "Youth" - seafaring story about inexperience
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Carson MuCullers
American southern gothic writer The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Lymon Willis, a dwarf, ruins his cousin's life
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D.H. Lawrence
"The Odour of Chrysanthemums" Miners "red mouths" Woman's husband suffocates in a mine
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Henry James
The Aspern Papers Fictionalized Byron Set in Venice Main character trying to write a biography and get material from dead subject's former mistress and daughter The Golden Bowl Baroque sentence structure, hestitations + considerations, interirority, possibilities, London
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Charon
Ferryman of river Styx
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Leda
Raped by Zeus in the form of a swan | Mother to Clytemnestra, Helen
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Aristotle
Poetics
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Prosopopoeia
Personification
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"The Sun Rising"
Donne Lovers inhabit another world, outside of space and time Early poetry about humping, later poetry about God (this is earlier)
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Percy Shelley
Romantic poetry All about sublime, volcanoes, waterfalls, cliffs, etc. "Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude"
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Icarus
Flew too close to the sun, fell into the ocean | Ambition
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Medusa
Snake-haired fury | Killed by Perseus with mirror
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Penelope
Went through ruses to keep suitors at bay while Odysseus was gone
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Imogen
From Cymbeline | Embodiment of goodness
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Aristophanes
Comedic plays: Lysistrata - she breaks up armies, no sex for warriors until wars are over Clouds- ridicules Socrates Frogs- makes fun of Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
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Medea
Tragedy by Euripides in which a woman kills her lover, his fiance, the fiance's father, and her own children
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Wordsworth
``` "She lived amongst th' untrodden ways" Wordsworth and Coleridge were Lake Poets (Rydal Lake) Lake district of London Wordsworth wrote about Lucy "Intimations on Immortality" ```
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Robert Herrick
Julia poems
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O'Neill
Playwright | Mourning Becomes Electra
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Racine
Playwright Phaedra Master of French neoclassical theater
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Euripides
Tragic dramatist | Medea
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George Chapman
"High priest of Homer" Early English translator of Greek Keats and Swinburne write about his translations
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Victorian poet Rebellious attitude toward Victorian morals Rhyme and meter
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Enlightenment
Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot prominent figures
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Blake
Displeased with Enlightenment theories and reliance on rationality Early romantic poet "The Tygre"
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Volpone
``` Ben Johnson Comedy, beast fable play Volpone (the fox) and Mosca (the fly) Trickery, blackmail, outwit everyone but each other, Volpone turns them in Corvino (the raven) Set in Venice ```
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Restoration comedy
1660-1710 Comedy of manners Etheredge Dryden
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Heroic stanza
abab | Four lines
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Maya Angelou
"On the Pulse of Morning" read at Clinton inauguration | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Mary Queen of Scots
Catholic
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Queen Isabella
Catholic | Ferdinand and Isabella
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Queen Anne
Daughter of Charles II | Not well known or memorable
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Queen Elizabeth
Notable Puritan | Write some poetry about Massachusetts
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Anne Bradstreet
Puritan poetry
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Margery Kempe
Medieval figure who devoted her life to Christ after a long marriage and kids Wrote at autobiography
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MAry Rowlandson
Puritan woman who recorded her abduction by Native Americans
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Sarah Orne Jewett
19th-c New England The Country of the Pointed Firs Racist white solitude
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Not a Puritan Vindication of the Rights of Women Mary Shelley's mom
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Tamburlaine
Marlowe Epic Central Asia, Timur the Sultan War, Damascus
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Gilgamesh
Ancient Assyrian Epic 1500 years before Iliad Beowulf-esque
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The Niebelungenlied
13th-c romance, betrayal, war, murder Enormous treasure= niebelungenlied Siegfried main character Legend used by William Morris for Sigurd the Volsung
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Eudora Welty
Southern gothic writer, not super extreme, died in 2001
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Willa Cather
West/Midwestern writer | Died in 1947
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Nadine Gortimer
South African novelist, alive in 1969
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May Sarton
New England poet, novelist, diarist
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Flannery O'Connor
Southern gothic writer | Describes South in scary Christian poor way
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Henry Fielding
``` Tom Jones Rollicking good time Comic irony Adventure Goody Brown Molly Jones ```
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Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Drama, Hardy
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Daniel Deronda
George Eliot, drama
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Zeus (Greek)
Jove (Roman) | Raper
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Hera (Greek)
Juno (Roman) | Always angry at Zeus and his ladies
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Apollo (Greek)
Apollo (Roman) | Sun/music god
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Athena (Greek)
Minerva (Roman) | Wisdom
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Hermes (Greek)
Mercury (Roman) | Messenger god
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Artemis (Greek)
Diana (Roman) | Hunter
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Eros (Greek)
Cupid (Roman) | Love
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Prometheus
Gave men fire | Doomed to have liver torn out by vultures for all eternity
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An Apology for Poetry
Sir Philip Sidney Comedic curse to shitty poets 16th-c
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Ptolemaic model of planets
Divine music of spheres moving around | Older than heliocentric Copernicus, Kepler, and Galieo
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T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land Esoteric poetry "Modern" style, not antiquated
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John Dos Passos
U.S.A. trilogy | Anti-war stories and essays
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E.M. Forster
Intricate human relationships Wrote criticism: Aspects of the Novel Interested in character development - Austen round, Dickens flat Started round/flat terminology
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Langston Hughes
"Raisin in the sun" I, Too Harlem Renaissance Vernacular
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Countee Cullen
Peer of Langston Hughes | Traditional verse
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W.E.B. DuBois
Harvard educated Critical of Booker T. Washington Double-consciousness NAACP
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Late 19th-c | Vernacular
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Amiri Bakara
Poet, playwright, novelist Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note The Dutchman Jazz and blues
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Dylan Thomas
20th-c Musical verse Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (villanelle)
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Ezra Pound
``` 20th-c modernist American "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" rhyming satiric poem Facist "The Cantos" Asian poetry Juxtaposition and quotes Followed Yeats and edited The Waste Land ```
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William Carlos Williams
American modernist "no ideas but in things" Big words and made up words together
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Ted Hughes
Poet laureate of GB Died in 1998 Known for Crow People as beasts
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Sylvia Plath
Ariel The Bell Jar Married to Ted Hughes Haunting, violent, bitter, pitiless
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William Dean Howells
``` Harpers and Atlantic monthly Joyless critic Realist Socialist The Rise of Silas Lapham ```
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William Faulkner
Stream of consciousness known for Yoknapatawpha County, fictionalized version of Lafayette, MS Super long sentences American gothic modernist Absalom, Absalom The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying ``` Quentin Compsons (2) Benjy Compson (TSATF "idiot") ``` Count No' count - derogatory nickname
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise Tender is the Night The Great Gatsby American
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Samuel Pepys
17th-c diary Restoration London man Written in private code 1600s
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Sir Thomas More
16th-c | Dead before 1660
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Sir Thomas Mallory
16th-c Rival and friend of Shakespeare Dead before 1660
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John Bunyan
``` Pilgrim's Progress Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners Religious 17th-c Contemporary to Spenser, Dryden, Pepys, Milton ```
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John Ruskin
Materialist Victorian 19th-c Not funny
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Walter Pater
Not funny Victorian Christian Renaissance works
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Thomas Carlyle
``` Early 19th-c/Victorian critic Funny Sketches of his contemporaries Rancorous, philosophical Sartor Resartus - self-satire and German metaphysics ```
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Notes from the Underground
Dostoyevsky | Memoir, hypochondriac, alienation
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Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust Epic masterpiece Ordinary childhood First person, memory
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke Biographical spiritual musings Poetry-like, known for lyrical writing
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The Stranger
Albert Camus Mother dies @ beginning Witnesses senseless murder on the beach (Algiers) Disaffected
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Pere Goriot
Balzac Examinations of bourgeois French, known for descriptions of Paris
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The Scarlet Letter
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale fathers Hester Prynne's child
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes Sexually disabled WWI veteran Hemingway France and Spain
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Daisy Miller
Flirtatious Henry James character | Nouveau riche American girl in France
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Hudibras
Samuel Butler (1613-1680) English Don Quixote Comically rhymed, "hudibrastic"
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Dunciad
Alexander Pope Satire about bad poets Set in the kingdom of Dulness Pope was irritated that Colley Cibber was chosen Poet Laureate
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Mac Flecknoe
Dryden Argument against boring poets Annoyed with Restoration playwright Thomas Shadwell
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal | Read about attempted murder and execution in newspaper, wrote about it
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Buddenbrooks
Mann | Decay of a family
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Lost Illusions
Balzac Lucian de Rubempre travels to Paris with mistress to write Loses everything and makes a comeback orchestrated by criminal Vautrin
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Sentimental Education
Flaubert Rewrote beginning of Balzac's Lost Illusions Frederic Moreau unrequited love, pitiful
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Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun | Rustic Norwegian stoic perseveres against a hard land
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"To His Coy Mistress"
Marvell | Argument not to wait until death to have sex
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"The Emperor of Ice Cream"
Wallace Stevens | Odd imagery to convey Zen-like version of cosmos/death
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"In Memoriam of A.H."
Tennyson about a fellow poet who died young | abba iambic tetrameter
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"Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"
Gray Heroic stanzas "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" Lyric
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"To an Athlete Dying Young"
A.E. Houseman | 4-line stanzas, heroic couplets
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The School of Scandal
Sheridan Play Comedy 1777
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The Way of the World
``` Congreve Play Comedy 1700 Women talking about marrying men and pretending they're cuckolds ```
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The Conquest of Grenada
Dryden Play Drama Mid-17thc
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Webster
The Duchess of Malfi 1612 Macabre tragedy
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The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd Play 1587 Madness, suicide, self-mutilation
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The Fairie Queene
Spenser 9 line stanzas in pentameter, last line hexameter Archaic style, added e's to the ends of words 1590-6
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Cerberus
3-headed dog that guards the underworld (Greek)
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Hydra
7-headed dragon, when one head is severed 2 grow back in its place (Greek) Hercules
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Chimera
Goat, lion, serpent
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Jorge Luis Borges
``` Argentinian Kafka-esque Known for poetry Ficciones Modernist, miniaturist Similar to Beckett, Joyce, Nabakov ```
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George Orwell
Animal Farm 1984 Social justice
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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita Pale Fire Experiments with form Erudite
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Bernard Malamud
American writer, Russian-Jewish heritage | The Fixer
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Andre Gide
French | Diaries + novels
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Richard III
Notoriously evil psychopath | Seduces Anne, kills her husband
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Emily Dickinson
"Slant of light" Em dashes "Because I could not stop for death"
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"Tithonus"
Tennyson "And after many a summer dies the swan" Eternal life but not eternal youth
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"Howl"
Ginsberg | Madness, long sentence
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"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd"
Whitman's eulogy for Lincoln
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Henry IV
Henry kills rival Hotspur "undone by ambition" | Falstaff survives by playing dead, takes credit for victory
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George Etherege
``` Man of Mode Restoration comedy 18th-c Vulgar Insults itself and its audience ```
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Jacobean masque
``` Draws from medieval/religious traditions Lavish sets and machinery Dancing and music Early 17th-c Ben Jonson and John Milton ```
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Aurora
Goddess of dawn
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"Corinna's Going A-Maying"
Herrick Julia poems Dawn
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe Werther a poet, bourgeois, falls in love with Lottie Tells his story in a diary and commits suicide with pistols
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Axel
Le Compte Villiers Obscure play that inspired Axel's Castle Edumund Wilson wrote some criticism about it
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Sturm and Drang
Goethe's "storm and stress" movement | Youthful romantic hero confronts the laws of society, flouts them, plays the price
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Letters from Earth
Mark Twain | Satan talks to God about humans
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane | Dystopic story about homeless girl raised by an alcoholic mother, ends up being a prostitute and commits suicide
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Homage to Catalonia
Spanish Civil War Not utopian Socialism
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My Antonia
Cather | Hard life of Nebraska pioneers Jm Burden and Antonia Shimerda
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The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Based on real utopian socialist colony Brook Farm
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Thomas Shadwell
1642-92 Bawdy playwright Dryden make fun of him
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Samuel Johnson
1709-84 | Poet, critic, essayist
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Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered
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Honi soit qui mal y pense
Shame on him who thinks this evil
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Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long, life is short
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Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am
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Carpe diem
Seize the day
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Utopia
Thomas More | Beheaded for treason bc he refused to support Henry VIII's conflict with the Pope
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John Donne
Once Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral | Early poetry raunchy, later religious
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Metaphysical poets
17th-c John Donne George Herbert
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Adventurer, poet, confidant to Queen Elizabeth
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William Cowper
Wrote between bouts of suicidal madness
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Erewhon
Samuel Butler Parody of Utopia Also wrote Way of All Flesh and Hudibras
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A Tale of the Tub
Jonathan Swift | Satire about religion, got him banned from church
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll | 1865
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell 1930s London Social critique
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Eyeless in Gaza
``` Aldous Huxley Bildungsroman of Anthony Beavis over 4 sections, becomes disillusioned with upper-class society after suicide of a friend ```
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Piers Ploughman
William Langland 1350-80 | Middle English
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Caedmon's Hymn
Caedmon Late 7th-c First English poet known to history
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Comedie Humaine
Balzac Collection of interrelated novels Rastignac, main character of Pere Goriot
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Maupassant
1850s French writer, naturalist school of thought Social critique Known for denouement Inspired Citizen Kane
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Truman Capote
1924-84
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Tennessee Williams
``` American playwright 1911-83 The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Plays based on family and self, alcoholism, homosexuality ```
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William Styron
American playwright 1925-2006 Sophie's Choice - Auschwitz survivor
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The Good Woman of Sezchuan
Brecht | Modernist play
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The Country Wife
Wycherly | Restoration comedy
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Line from John Donne and title of Hemingway novel

GRE English Literature (1 decks)

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