love poets pre 1900

Question 1

thomas wyatt

Answer 1

-renaissance poet
- relationship with anne boleynn
-high class and connections to royalty
-wrote who so list

Question 2

shakespeare

Answer 2

-jacobean writer poet and dramatist
-wrote sonnet 116
-possibly homosexual
-religious

Question 3

john donne

Answer 3

-the flea
-metaphysical
-deeply spiritual but sexual
-contradicted himself
-1600s
-written for male court audience

Question 4

andrew marvell

Answer 4

-to his coy mistress
-metaphysical
-tragic life parents died
-disappeared and became a spy
-affiliations ambiguous royalist or hater?
-close to monarchy and gov

Question 5

richard lovelace

Answer 5

-the scrutiny
-1600
-wealthy and close to royalty
-firm royalist
-cavalier poet
-poetry aimed at likeminded people

Question 6

william blake

Answer 6

-the garden of love
-1700s
-romanticist
-criticised industrial expansion
-disliked organised religion
-explored his sexuality

Question 7

robert burns

Answer 7

-ae fond kiss
-1700s
-scottish dialectical form
-fruitless relationship
-outspoken and influential
-early death

Question 8

lord byron

Answer 8

1700-1800
-she walks in beauty
-romatic movement leading figure had a divorce which was unusual
-life filled with rumours
-notorious and flamboyant
-possibly homosexual

Question 9

christina rossetti

Answer 9

-remeber
-tragic and sad life
-fascinated by morbidity
-pre-raphaelites
-1800s
-“art for arts sake”
-mental health break downs
-privilaged and important

Question 10

thomas hardy

Answer 10

-victorian realist
-highly critical of declining society
-middle class but intelligent
-influenced by social divisions
-heart buried with wife and body in poets corner
-the ruined maid
-at an inn
-fell in love outside of his relationship

Question 11

john keats

Answer 11

1700-1800
-la belle dame sans merci
-lack of formal education
-romantic poet
-deep love in his life
-tragic life died at 25
-didnt think hed acheived his potential

Question 12

earnest dowson

Answer 12

-nom sum qualis
-middle class highly educated
-cliche of a drunken poet
-life influenced by drugs and alc
-father died and mother hanged self
-unrequited love for 11 year old
-decadent movement

Question 13

john wilmott

Answer 13

-a song (absent from thee)
-cavalier poet
-1600
-connection to royalty
-wildly behaved but at his death renounced his libertinism
-was known as a libertine
-individuals in his circle shared mistresses