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Unit 4 Flashcards

1
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Who wrote The Bait?

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John Donne

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2
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Who wrote A Hymn To God the Father?

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John Donne

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3
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Who wrote The Anniversary?

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John Donne

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4
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Who wrote Renunciation?

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John Donne

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5
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Who is the greatest poet of all the time and the second greatest writer in English literature?

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John Milton

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6
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Produced England’s greatest epic?

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John Milton

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What is England’s greatest epic?

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Paradise Lost

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8
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Who believed that Christians should live a pure and holy life?

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Puritans

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Who is the greatest prose writer of the age?

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John Bunyan

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10
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Produced Pilgrim’s Progress?

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John Bunyan

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11
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What is England’s greatest allegory?

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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12
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Who were lyricists of a lighter vein who emphasized the pleasures of this world and wrote love songs to or about woman?

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Cavalier Poets

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13
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Who wrote Delight In Disorder?

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Robert Herrick

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15
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Who was interested in the things of the mind, the soul, and eternity?

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Metaphysical Poets

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16
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Name 1 of the 5 Cavalier Poets?

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Richard Lovelace, 
Sir John Suckling, 
Robert Herrick, 
George Wither, 
Edmund Waller
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17
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Who wrote The Author’s Resolution In A Sonnet?

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George Wither

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18
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Who wrote His Prayer For Absolution?

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Robert Herrick

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19
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Who wrote Meditation XVII?

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John Donne

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20
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Who wrote To The Virgin’s, To Make Much of Time?

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Robert Herrick

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21
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Who wrote To God, On His Sickness?

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Robert Herrick

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22
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Who wrote No Coming To God Without Christ?

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Robert Herrick

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23
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Who wrote The Constant Lover?

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Sir John Suckling

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24
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Who wrote A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?

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John Donne

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25
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Who was the first and greatest of the Metaphysical Poets?

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John Donne

26
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What points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar elements?

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Metaphysical Conceit

27
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Who wrote Ana(Mary)gram?

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George Herbert

28
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Who wrote Antiphon (I)?

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George Herbert

29
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Who wrote The 23rd Psalm?

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George Herbert

30
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Who wrote Bitter-sweet?

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George Herbert

31
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Who wrote Love?

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George Herbert

32
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Who wrote The Pulley?

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George Herbert

33
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Who wrote Discipline?

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George Herbert

34
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Who wrote The Collar?

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George Herbert

35
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Who is one of the most important of the Metaphysical Poets, known for his saintly life and intense devotion to God?

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George Herbert

36
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Who wrote Friends Departed?

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Henry Vaughan

37
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Who wrote Peace?

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Henry Vaughan

38
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Who wrote Wonder?

A

Thomas Traherne

39
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What poem is the following quote from: “Sweet Peace sits crown’d with smiles, And one born in a manger.”?

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Peace (by Henry Vaughan)

40
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What is a complete thought expressed in two rhyming lines?

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A couplet

41
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What type of poetry declined in the puritan age?

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Drama

42
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Who wrote Go, Lovely Rose!

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Edmund Waller

43
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Who wrote To Althea, from Prison

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Richard Lovelace

44
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Who wrote To Lucasta, Going to the Wars?

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Richard Lovelace

45
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Name 1 of the 4 metaphysical poets?

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Jon Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne

46
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Who wrote On Christmas Day?

A

Thomas Traherne

47
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Who wrote An Epitaph?

A

Richard Crashaw

48
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Who wrote Now?

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Bishop Thomas Ken

49
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Who wrote Psalm 1?

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John Milton

50
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Who wrote Song On May Morning?

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John Milton

51
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Who wrote On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three?

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John Milton

52
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Who wrote On the Late Massacre in Piedmont?

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John Milton

53
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Who wrote In Defense of Books?

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John Milton

54
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What story is concerned with freedom of the press?

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In Defense of Books

55
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What is England’s greatest pastoral elegy?

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Lycidas (by John Milton)

56
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What poet was blind?

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John Milton

57
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Who wrote On Paradise Lost?

A

Andrew Marvell

58
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What poet was Milton’s assistant?

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Andrew Marvell

59
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What poem is the quote “Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” from?

A

Paradise Lost (by Milton)

60
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What poem talks about God not giving rest to man?

A

The Pulley (by Herbert)

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