Midterm 1 Flashcards
(38 cards)
8 epochs of literature
Classical Period, The Dark Ages, Medieval(Middle Ages), The Renaissance, Restoration/Enlightment, Romantic Period, Victorian Period, Modern Period
Classical Period: Ancient Greece & Rome
Socrates/Plato/Aristotle/Sophocles/Aeschylus/Homer
The Dark Ages
Boethius,
Venerable Bede,
Alfred the Great
Medieval(Middle Ages)
Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante Alleqheri, Thomas Malory
The Renaissance “The Rebirth” of the Classical
William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Bunyan, John Donne
Restoration/Enlightment
John Locke,
Jonathan Swift,
Samuel Johnson,
James Boswell
Romantic
1st Romantics- William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake
2nd Romantics- Lord Byron, Percy Bysche Shelley, John Keats
Victorian Period
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Emily Dickinson
Modern Period
Langston Hughes,
4 Emphases of Romanticism Pros
Nature, The Individual, Common People, Feelings
4 Emphases of Romanticism Cons
Industrial Revolution, Society, Great People, Reason
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds(Sonnet 116)
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun(Sonnet 130)
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes(Sonnet 29)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought(Sonnet 30)
That time of year thou mayst in me behold(Sonnet 73)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?(Sonnet 18)
John Donne
Song
Death Be Not Proud
The Flea
John Milton
When i consider how my light is spent
Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta
Ben Johnson
To Celia
Robert Herrick
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Andrew Marvell
To his Coy Mistress
George Herbert
Love
Easter Wings
Anne Bradstreet
Verses Upon the Burning of our House
To my dear and loving husband
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The World is too much with us
William Blake
London
The Tyger
The Sick Rose
Perry Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
When i have fears that i may cease to be
To Autumn