Anthology Flashcards
Name the 2 Cavalier (carpe diem, King Charles I court) poets
- Wilmot
- Lovelace
Name the 2 Classical Renaissance Poets ( courtly💗 idealised 💗 Petrarchan form 14 lines)
- Shakespeare
- Wyatt
Name the two Metaphysical Poets (sex, conceits, lawyers, oxbridge)
- John Donne
- Marvell
Name the 4 Romantics poets
libertines, rejected enlightenment + religion promoted emotions, nature, beauty
- Blake
- Byron ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’
- Burns
- Keats
Name the 2 Victorian poets
Gender spheres, domesticity, strict
- Christina Rossetti
- Hardy
Name the Decadent poet
- Debauched, frivolous, alcoholism, French, reject Victorian strict, TB, 11 yr old
Ernest Dowson
3 strong poems for Idealised love/ romantic
Sonnet 116
She walks in beauty
Ae fond kiss
2 strong poems for obsession/possession
Who so list
Absent from thee
2 poems for marital love
Sonnet 116
The flea
2 poems for negative love
Dowson
La belle dame
Sexual love 2 poems
The flea
The scrutiny
A03 Dowson (resembles 1920s decadence of ‘madder music’)
Decadent
11 year old Adelaide
Died from TB ‘pale lost lilies’ innocent
Unforgettable obsession, italics, repetition, refrain
A03 sonnet 116
Part of a collection on love and time to a young man
Natural metaphors
Read at weddings
Celestial ‘star cross’d’
Ao3 who so list
Mythology - Deer special, Goddess Diana of hunting and virginity accompanied, perhaps chasing her chaste
Anne hung and wyatt imprisoned in Tower of London for alleged affair
Henry Viii - tom
- Petrarchan 14 lines
- humanism
- mythology
- lyrical quality
- great chain of being/ divine order
Classical renaissance