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epic invocation

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a call to a divinity who will inspire and bless the verse

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alexander pope

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wrote Rape of the Lock, about a guy who takes a lady’s hair. mock epic, lady’s name is Belinda. Pope wrote it at the request of his friend Caryll.

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heroic couplets

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pairs of iambic pentameter lines rhyming aabbcc

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wb yeats

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poetry characterized by symbolism

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matthew arnold

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“sweetness and light,” referring to the quality and beneficial values of classical literature–Arnold was a devout classicist–wrote Culture and Anarchy which argued that art calls forth the best in mankind

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colridge

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divided imagination into “primary” and “secondary”

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Aeschylus

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Prometheus Bound–in his version Prometheus steals fire from Hephaistos, Zeus punishes him by tying him to a cliff and having his liver eaten daily. Same version used by PB Shelley in Prometheus unbound.

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poetic inversion

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inverting customary word order, i.e. noun and adjective

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Achilles’ armor

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made by Hephaistos, worn into battle by Patroclus, who is killed and stripped by the trojan Hector. Achilles’ mother, Thetis, orders a new one from Hephaistos and Achilles receives it the next day.

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JM Synge

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wrote Playboy of the Western World–where a son has to kill a father twice, first to acclaim, second to chagrin–father comes back again and they reconcile.

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David Copperfield

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Dickens, partly autobiographical; besides David characters are. Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and Uriah Heep

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Scheherazade

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narrator of 1001 Arabian Nights, uses stories to keep from being beheaded

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Charles Lamb

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friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, used pen name Elia

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tercet

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group of three lines

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ottava rima

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eight line stanza, usually in iambic pentameter

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rhyme royal

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iambic pentameter lines rhyming ababbcc–usually only seven lines

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Bigger Thomas

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character in Richard Wright’s Native Son

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The Awakening

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Kate Chopin, featuring Pontellier and Lebrun, set in Louisiana and confronts idea that women are men’s property

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House of Mirth

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Edith Wharton, Lily Barton is character’s name and it’s set in NYC

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North and South

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Elizabeth Gaskell, upper class british who worte about social conditions in industrializing England

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My Last Duchess

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Robert Browning, Italian nobleman speaks to a portrait of his dead wife who he’s had killed; written in heroic couplets

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Youth

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by Joseph Conrad, young seaman loves danger

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Dante’s guides

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Virgil in first two books, but not third because V hasn’t been redeemed because he died before Jesus was born. Beatrice guides him in Paradiso–they met at nine and fell in love at first sight.

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Prosopopoeia

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personification that includes attributing speech to a nonhuman object

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Donne's early work
The Sun Rising, "lighthearted and saucy" according to PR, ambitious manboy in younger years, pre-deanship
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Imogen
Shakespeare's embodiment of goodness in Cymbelline
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes play, name means "she breaks up armies"
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Lucy Poems
Wordsworth's poems about Lucy
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Julia Poems
Robert Herrick's poems about Julia
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Andromanche
associated with Euripides and Racine; Racine's Phaedra is an example of his mastery of French neoclassical theater
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Chapman's Homer
Chapman , referred to as "the high priest of Homer," was an early English translator of the Greeks; treated by Keats in one of his first mature poems "On Chapman's Homer"; Swinburne discusses him in verse.
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octave
first eight lines of an Italian sonnet, also called a Petrarchan sonnet (the English sonnet is also called a Shakespearian sonnet); Italian sonnets can be divided into an octave and a sestet whereas English and Spenserian sonnets have three rhymed quatrains and end in a couplet
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French Enlightenment figures
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot; loved Reason
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Absalom and Achitophel
Dryden
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Volpone
Ben Jonson's play about a fox; the fox and his comrade Mosca (the fly) outwit everyone but each other. Mosca tries to blackmail Volpone but he just outs them both; Corvino is the raven.
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An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope; tended to be more mocking than chastising as far as responding to other poets; more likely to critique in droll rhyming couplets
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skeltonics
verse form practiced/propagated by John Skelton in the late 15th/early 16th Cs; short lines with choppy rhythm suitable only for comedy and satire
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euphemism
assocated with John Lyly, characterized by an extreme, elaborate line construction
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Child Harolde's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron; written in cantos
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Spenserian stanza
only major nine-line form; final line is an alexandrine in iambic hexameter (six-footed)
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Maya Angelou
read her poem, On the Pulse of Morning, at Clinton's inauguration in addition to I know Why th Caged Bird Sings
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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding's well known work; characters include Goody Brown and Molly; reads as farcical comedy
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Pamela and Clarissa
Samuel Richardson's didactic, classicist novels that Fielding mocks in Shamela
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Ptolemaic universe
succeeded by Copernicus, Kepler, and then Galileo; holds that stars and other heavenly bodies are nested in spheres that rotate around the earth and created divine music
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Dylan Thomas
20th C, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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17th C diary question
Samuel Pepys, wrote in code that wasn't deciphered until 19th C, frank portrayal of London man's life
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Carlyle
Contemporary to other Victorians like Charles Lamb, funny--not like Arnold or Ruskin or Pater. His writing is idiosyncratic, rancours and philosophical. Most famous fiction is Sartor Resartus.
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decorum
neoclassical constraint that insists a person's speech should keep with their station
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Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rilke's most important prose work, characterized by biographical spiritual musings; his object poems are supposed to dissolve the space between observer and observed
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Pere Goriot
Balzac's examination of 19th C bougie French life, main character's name is Rastignac; he starts out naive and grows increasingly cynical and successful as the series of novels continues
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Absalom and Achitophel
Dryden's witty but ultimately serious work allegorizing the political situation in Restoration England, using biblical figures to promote an "essentially pro-Charles" position
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Dunciad
Alexander Pope's satire in which the pope makes fun of poets
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Mac Flecknoe
also by Dryden, makes fun of boring poets
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The Red and the Black
by Stendhal, a novel in which "a young man of humble origins and formerly a seminary student had been executed for the attempted murder of the woman he loved"
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"Time's winged chariot hurrying near; and yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity"
Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
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"Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"
Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"
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The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd super violent play
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The Fairie Queene
Spenser's poem written in nine-line stanzas in pentameter except for the last line which has an extra foot, so in hexameter, CALLED AN ALEXANDRINE. Also, weird spelling is just what Spenser was into--it was published between 1590 and 1596.
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Flat and round characters
Important to Forster's criticism--and he cites Dickens as an example of good use of both
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Lady Bertram, Fanny
Character's from Austen's Mansfield Park
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Shakespeare's title character that cares more about ladies than politics, is misshappen, ambitious, evil, and brilliant
Richard III
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sturm und drang
German romantic movement; influential/apparent in Goethe and Schiller; works have a romantic hero that confronts the arbitrary or unnatural laws of society, flouts them, and ultimately pays the price
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Dystopian story about a girl who is raised in poverty, raised by a terrible mother and ends up being a prostitute after being tricked into it by her lover named Pete and then kills herself.
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A girl of the streets.
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Nebraska pioneer life novel about characters named Antonia and Jim Burden
Willa Cather's My Antonia
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April 23, 1564; April 23, 1616
Shakespeare's birth and death dates
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"To My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
Ben Jonson
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Erewhon
Samuel Butler's parody of Utopia
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William Langland
wrote Piers Ploughman between 1350 and 1380, middle english (if you can read it, it isn't old english)
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poet turned priest; early work is racy and fun, later work is death-obsessed and addressed to a congregation in sermons, in one of which he coins the phrase "for whom the bell tolls"
John Donne
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Aphra Behn
considered first professional female prose writer and dramatist, lived in 17th C, writing characteristically makes the narrator part of the action and draws the reader close
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Eudora Welty
southern writer, more interested in human relationships than feminism
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George Eliot
given name Marian Evans, disregarded feminist writing in favor of common folk in Adam Bede (which includes "This Rector of Broxton"), Middlemarch, and Silas Marner
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"some mute and inglorious Milton"
from Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church yard;
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Ellis Bell, Acton Bell, Currer Bell
pen names used by the Bronte sisters: Emily, Anne, and Charlotte, respectively
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Eugene O'Neill
American playwright, work is profoundly melancholic, parallels lotsa Greek tragedy, big and powerful emotionally; created worlds and characters the size of Shakespeare's.
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plays about Russian upper-middle-class domesticity, with intricate plots and perfect dialogue; playwright was a doctor of medicine as well
Chekov
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Bounderby, Gradgrind, and Coketown
character names from Dickens' Hard Times
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John Dos Passos
hard headed realist
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"Ineluctable modality of the visible"
line from Joyce's Ulysses, Proteus episode
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JS Mill
claims that the object of his life is to be a reformer of the world; utilitariansim, Jeremy Bentham, and individualism; individual rights in relation to the state; suffered from extreme depression as a young man which made him revise many of his philosophical views
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Cardinal Newman aka John Henry Newman
Victorian thinker, wrote Apologia Pro Vita Sua and The Idea of a University in dispassionate, logical style, Apologia is a justification for his conversion from Anglican clergyman to Catholic priest
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Thomas Chatterton
in 1760, fabricated poems of fictional poets from earlier times, best known being Thomas Rowley; forged supporting documents; he's a favorite of the Romantics
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Rimbaud
as a theorist, he was disgusted with the poetry of his contemporaries so he wanted to become a visionary/seer so he practiced "a derangement of the senses" with drugs, etc.
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Amory Blaine
from Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
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fought with each other about the role of prominent black artist should take amidst the racial divisions in the US
James Baldwin and Richard Wright
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centers on the battle of Agincourt, won by the English led by Henry despite the odd's against them; mentions the Globe theater as "this wooden O"
Shakespeare's Henry V
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"An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne"
by Thomas Carew
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Dorimant and Loveit
characers from The Man of Mode by Restoration playwright George Etheridge
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Lord Alfred Douglas
Oscar WIlde's Bosie
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attributing emotional states to inanimate objects based on the feelings of the observer of those objects
Ruskin's pathetic fallacy
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wrote to Wordsworth a lot regarding the local and WW's love of wandering in "groves and valleys"
Charles Lamb
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Story told by an English governess who attends a pair of childrem, Miles and Flora, who are haunted by former estate employees, Peter Quint and Miss Jessel--all causing a bunch of sexual anxiety
Henry James' Turn of the Screw
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"some hideous secret"
refers to Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Hester Prynne as lady, Dimmesdale as slutty reverend and Chillingworth as husband cum doctor
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Eppie, Silas Marner
George Eliot's Silas Marner; the former is a foundling who eventually makes the miserly old Silas happy
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Lockwood
A dopey tenant who narrates entry into Wuthering Heights; Heathcliff is the foundling boy who has romance with Catherine Earnshaw; he's somewhat adopted by her father
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Frank Churchill, Mr. Woodhouse and daughter Emma
Jane Austen's Emma
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Lydgate and Casaubon
George Eliot's Middlemarch; novel centered on Dorothea Brooke and the titular town; Casaubon is her first husbant who's erudite but hapless; Lydgate's a doctor with a reputation made bad by shady financial dealings
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known for his novel Cane and as a religious philosopher and poet
Jean Toomer
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Clytemnestra and Agamemnon are from the house of Atreus; she is killed out of revenge by her son
Characters in Aeschylus' tragedies, the Oresteia trilogy--Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides; written 5th C BCE
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Claude McKay
radical African American poet, ardent socialist
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Lampito and Lysistrata
characters from Lysistrata
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Mordred; King Arthur
characters from Le Morte D'Arthur
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"Come with me and be my love | And we will all the pleasures prove"
opening lines to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (Walter Raleigh wrote a poem called "The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd")
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Calypso's cave
in the Odyssey
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riddling sphinx and house of Thebes
Oedipus
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I Dreamed I Moved Among the Elysian Field
a poem by Edna St Vincent Millay in which Millay meats women of myth
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Adonois XXXVI
PB Shelley's elegy to John Keats
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playwright wrote an alternate ending for this play about a woman named Nora who ultimately leaves her husband and children; assocated with the phrase "problem play"
Ibsen's A Doll's house
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Hans Castorp
one of the main characters from Mann's Magic Mountain
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
Emerson's Self Reliance
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All human things are subject to decay | And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
the opening of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
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the metrical principle of organizing lines based on the number of stressed syllables they contain
sprung rhythm; formalized by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Whitman was born in Brooklyn; his free verse and characteristic repetition is exuberant in diction and rhythm with exceptionally long lines; celebrates the fellowship of humanity often in the context of the Civil War
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Georgic poetry
deals with people laboring in the countryside, pushing plows, raising crops, etc. Term derived from Virgil's Georgics
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Aristotle's term for what is popularly called "the tragic flaw"
Hamartia
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Homeric epithet
repeated descriptive phrase
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Hudibrastic
any deliberate, humorous, ill-rhythmed, ill-rhymed couplets--derived from Samuel Butler's Hudibras; Butler had a gift for bad poetry
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Pastoral elegy
elegy sung by a shepherd in a poem
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Neoclassical unities
time (one day), place (single locale), action (single dramatic plot, no subplots)
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the rhythm created and used by Gerard Manley Hopkins in which only stresses count in scansion
sprung rhythm
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eight line stanza in iambic pentameter rhyming abababcc
ottava rima
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A nine line stanza in which the first eight are in iambic pentameter, the last being an alexandrine which is iambic hexameter.
Spenserian
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Three-line stanzas with an interlocking rhyme scheme that proceeds aba bcb ded etc.
Terza rima
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Romeo and Juliet characters
Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, Juliet's nurse, Benvolio (Romeo's cousin), Mercutio, Tybalt
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Fortinbras
the Prince of Norway who is constantly pressing on the Danes from without; appears at the end of the play to talk to Claudius but finds the results of the fencing match; is crowned king of Denmark by the dying Hamlet
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Ferdinand who marries Miranda, Prospero who's Miranda's marooned father, Ariel the spirit and Caliban who Prospero enslaves
characters from The Tempest
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Caliban in Setobos
Robert Browning's dramatic monologue (1864) that champions Caliban as a "natural man" in a Rousseauian sense
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Priam
Leader of Troy; his son Paris stole Helen
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Agamemnon
Leader of the Spartans, Brother to Menelaus who is married to Helen
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The person who gets angry at Agamemnon for taking his lady Bryseis; refuses to continue to lay seige to Troy and takes his folks, the Myrmidons, and his best friend, Patroclos, with him
Achilles
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champion of the Trojans who leads them to begin winning the battle
Hector
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Polyphemus
the cyclops who's blinded by Odysseus with the Nobody joke
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turns Odysseus' men into pigs
Circe
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leads Dante through Inferno and Purgatorio
Virgil
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the queen of Carthage whom Aeneas woos and who kills herself when he flees as the Greeks are decimating Carthage
Dido
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poem that invites a lady to come live with the speaker, wooing her with wildlife, landscapes, and diy clothes
Marlowe's the passionate shepherd to his love
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poem praising another playwright and poet that begins with questions about the value of praise from lesser men but then compares him with all the great western writers
Ben Jonson's "To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
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poems addressed to a possibly imaginary mistress, short lines and stanzas, really rhymey involving clothes, nipples, and night time
Robert Herrick's Julia poems
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poem demanding that the addressee come have sex with the speaker because time is rushing by and they'll both die soon
Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
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poem about how the poor don't have to worry about dying without recognition, includes the lines "Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest,/Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood";
Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
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Poem about how no one cares about the subject's death but the speaker, uses pastoral imagery and is about a girl named Lucy.
Wordsworth's She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
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Poem about Ulysses that performs his bored meditations in Ithaca, calling for a belief in a continuing possibility for greatness; mentions Telemachus a new possible hero.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses
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Tennyson's poetic meditation on the death of his lover; written over the course of 17 years in cantos--4 line abba stanzas in iambic tetrameter; also discusses concerns about faith in God and belief in science, particularly the theory of evolution
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
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Hrothgar, Beaw, Scyld Scefin, Heorot, Wiglaf
characters (and a place, Beowulf's meadhall) from Beowulf
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as is typical of its time, written in strong stress verse with lines organized internally by alliteration with a gap in the middle of the line known as a caesura
Beowulf, circa 750
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becomes king after Beowulf is killed by a dragon
Wiglaf
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poem that talks about a widening gyre, a falconer, a sphinx with slow thighs; visionary.
Yeat's The Second Coming, 1921
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an allegorical, alliterative poem written around 1380 that satirizes the social issues of the time as well as some theological questions concerning catholicism
William Langland's Piers Plowman
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Chaucer's tale about murder that includes the phrase "love conquers all" inscribed on the speakers' brooch and the phrase "murder will out;" significant not only for its antisemitism but also the miraculous song of a boy with a slit throat.
the prioresses' tale
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two dudes fight for a lady named Emily; Arcite, with the help of Mars, wins but dies, and so Palamon, who's enlisted Venus for help, gets the girl.
the knight's tale
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Chaucer's tale about a rooster, hen, and fox, named Chaunticleer, Perteltote, and Sir Russell, respectively.
The Nun's Priest's tale; Chaunticleer learns not to fall for flattery and the fox learns to eat rather than gloat.
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Tale about an old knight's young wife who, taking advantage of her husband's sudden blindness, sleeps with her younger lover in January's garden, with the knight holding on to the tree in which they are fucking. Pluto restore's January's sight mid-fuck, but May, the young wife, convinces him she was doing it to restore his sight.
the merchant's tale
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Chaucer's feminist tale in which the speaker meditates on the benefits and downsides of marriage and sex and the love or money that may or may not accompany either; the tale itself involves the rape of a maiden by one of Arthur's knights who, as punishment, eventually learns that women want sovereignty; he learns this from the witch he's married who turns into a beautiful woman after they marry.
the wife of bath's tale
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the miller's tale
Chaucer's story from the drunk who tells of a lady, Alison, that figures out how to cheat on her husband, a carpenter. She and her young scholar/lover, NIcholas, trick the carpenter to hang out on the roof in a wash tub while they do it inside; Absolom, another lovelorn suitor, interrupts them, she tricks him into kissing her ass through the window. He's mad, comes back with a poker; this time Nicholas hangs his ass out the window and Absalom burns him with the poker. Thinking the flood has come, the carpenter cuts the rope tying him to the roof and his tub comes clattering down.
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A tale told by a blonde, skinny, pretty fag who tricks people with fake relics and even admits his own hypocrisy, albeit hypocritically. His tale is of three drunks who go looking to make Death pay for taking one of their buddies but end up killing each other over the treasure they find.
Chaucer's The Pardoner's tale
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The franklin's tale
The franklin is a wealthy landowner, his tale is about a lover, Aurelius, a faithful wife, Dorgen, and Dorigen's husband, Arveragus.
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The reeve's tale
He's an administrative overseer and he tells a story about a miller who swindles two clerks who then go and sleep with his wife and daughter--he's responding to the miller's tale about the carpenter afraid of a flood.
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A tale about a patient wife who puts up with the trials of her needlessly jealous husband, the Marquis Walter (her name is Griselda).
The clerk's tale
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A tale abou a woman, Virginia, who has her father kill her so she can avoid the clutches of the evil judge Apius.
The doctor's tale.
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long poem drawing on the legends of a mythic king; told in stanzas that end with a bob and wheel
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1380)
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the Pearl poet
supposed author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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a long prose work about King Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur; written in late middle English
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When was the Faerie Queene written?
1590 (first installment) and 1596 (second installment)
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Why does it seem difficult to identify when the Faerie Queene was written?
Because Spenser deliberately used archaic looking and sounding English.
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characters: Mycetes, Crosoe, King of Fez, Bajazeth, Zenocrate, Zabina, etc.
Marlowe's Tamburlaine
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A sorcerer sells his soul for power; is served and persecuted by Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Mephistophilis
Marlowe's Faustus (Goethe's version has Faust sell his soul for knowledge and is only fighting with Mephistopheles)
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Better my heart, three-person'd God; for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet clearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth'd unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Donne's Holy Sonnet 14
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A blank verse long poem that, while written in English, seems structurally Latin. 1667.
Milton's Paradise Lost
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Milton's prose piece that is an inquiry into the distinctions between spiritual and temporal authority.
Areopagitica--interested particularly in the relationship between creativity, spirituality and political regulation, i.e. censorship attempts to inhibit God bringing good art into the world.
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``` Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. ```
Milton's Comus, a masque about a lady who falls asleep in the woods and is captured by Comus who erotically harasses her.
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Milton's pastoral elegy, interested in connecting a pastoral past, classical and Christian tradition.
Lycidas.
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An allegory featuring Christian, the protagonist who slogs through a life in places like the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair on his way to the Celestial City.
John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
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An analogical work about a political crisis in the reign of Charles II.
Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, 1631, written in heroic couplets.
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Mac Flecknoe
Dryden's satire about a contemporary dramatist (Thomas Shadwell) whom Dryden portrays as successor to the throne of dullness. This is a MOCK EPIC.
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Pope's mock epic
The Rape of the Lock; epic invocation, epic feast, epic battle, interference of gods, epic simile are given these analogues: dainty coffee, card game, spirits of dead demi-mondes.
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What about the Dunciad?
Also a mock epic by Pope, but this one is intended to savage bad poets and other contemporaries that annoyed Pope.
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Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
18th century writer with works including "The Vanity of Human Wishes," The lives of English Poets, The Rambler (writer/editor); Boswell was his biographer/disciple.
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fearful symmetry
from Blake's The Tyger
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1764-1860, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe (in whose work strange events end up having legit explanations), M.G. "Monk" Lewis's The Monk; parodied by Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
Gothic Novels
180
the Dashwoods, Lucy Steele, Edward Ferris, John Willoughby, and Colenel Brandon
character's from Sense and Sensibility
181
Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley, and George Wickham
Pride and Prejudice
182
the Bertrams, Fanny Price, and Mrs. Norris
Mansfield Park
183
Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Knightley, Miss Bates, Frank Churchill, Harriet Smith, and Jane Fairfax
Emma
184
Catherine Morland, the Allens, Henry Tilney, and John Thorpe.
Northhanger Abbey
185
Sir Walter, Elizabeth, Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, and the manor Kellynch Hall
Persuasion
186
Charles Lamb
the essayist who reviewed Lyrical Ballads and who made fun of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's love of the lakes and rural life.
187
the Victorian Essayists (1800-1900)
Thomas Carlyle, John Henry/Cardinal Newman, John Stewart Mill, Matthew Arnold, and John Ruskin.
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Victorian Essayist who wrote Sartor Resartus which was a philosophical/fictional work featuring Teufelsdrockh (the writer's stand-in, also referred to as "the Wanderer"), Weissnichtwo, the Everlasting Yea, the Everlasting No.
Thomas Carlyle