Authors

Question 1

John Bunyan
Wrote?
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 1

Wrote: Pilgrim’s Progress
Born-Died: 1628-1688
Important Details: Puritan, lived in England, jailed for preaching

Question 2

J.R.R. Tolkien
Wrote?
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 2

Wrote: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
Born-Died: 1892-1973
Important Details: English writer and Professor, advocate of myth but hated allegory, close friends with C.S. Lewis

Question 3

C.S. Lewis
Wrote?
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 3

Wrote: Perelandra, Chronicles of Narnia
Born-Died:
Important Details: Theologian and author, “Apostle to the Skeptics,” Oxford Scholar

Question 4

George Herbert
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 4

Born-Died:1593-1633
Important Details: wrote devotional poetry, was a country parish minister, first to think of poetry both as page and sound,

Question 5

George Herbert

Wrote?

Answer 5

Wrote: The Temple ( a collection of poems including: The Sacrifice, Holy Scriptures 1&2, Thanksgiving, A True Hymne, the Altar, and Easter Wings)

Question 6

John Donne
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 6

Born-Died: 1572-1631
Important Details: eloped with a 16yr old and lived in poverty afterwards, Catholic, converted by pressure to Anglicanism, never spiritually at peace and used sexual metaphors in his explanations of life and God

Question 7

John Donne

Wrote?

Answer 7

Wrote: The Good-Morrow, Death Be Not Proud, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 1624 and Several Steps in my Sickness, Batter My Heart Three-Person’d God, and The Sun Rising

Question 8

John Milton
Wrote?
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 8

Wrote: Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
Born-Died: 1608-1674
Important Details: Puritan, Abolitionist, opposed the Monarchy and Church of England, has a monument in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey

Question 9

Anne Bradstreet
Born-Died?
Important Details?

Answer 9

Born-Died: 1612-1672
Important Details: English Puritan, Educated far better than most women of her time, hated the New England wilderness, showed a struggle to not love this world (like family and house) more than God, themes: role of women in Puritan Society, morality, and examining the Puritan belief system

Question 10

Anne Bradstreet

Wrote?

Answer 10

Wrote: The Author to Her Book, The Flesh and The Spirit, Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, In Reference to Her Children

Question 11

John Greenleaf Whittier
Born?
Important Details?

Answer 11

Born: 1807

Important Details: Quaker, staunch abolitionist, “America’s Finest Religious Poet”

Question 12

John Greenleaf Whittier

Wrote?

Answer 12

Wrote: Divine Compassion, Lines From a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend, The Christian Slave, The Slave Ships, A Spiritual Manifestation