Authurs Flashcards
John dunne
Metaphysical poets, sensual love poets, desto poetry, pens reflexions religion, varying from serious to light tone
John Dunnes poems
”Holt sonnets”, ”goding to bed”, “a valediction: forbidding mourning
Edmunds spenser’s poem
The fairie Queen,
George Herbert’s poem
Easter wings
George Herbert
Metaphysical poet, renaissance
Edmund spenser
Renaissance,
Thomas Wyatt’s poem
Whose list to hunt, Petrarchan
Michael Drayton’a poem
Since there’s no help, Elizabethan
Shakespeare’s poetry
O mistress mine: carpe diem, upptakt
Robert herrick’a poem
To virgins to make much time; Elizabethan pattern, 16 lines, varying beats
Sir Philip Sidney’s poem
From astrophel and stella; petrarchan sonnet, stella virtue and beauty, Volta is he still want to be with her
Edmund spenser’s poem
From amoretti;
Sir Thomas more
Utopia; no place; journey to imaginary country
John Bunyan’poems
The pilgrims progress;
John dryden’s poems
Annus mirabilis; year of wonders(war, plague the great fire of london
Samuel pepys
The diary; wrote about London; fire of london
John wilmot/ earl of rochester
Love and life; convincing mistress, all we have is the moment; scandalising
William Congreve
Way of the world; complex play, unlikeable characters
John gay
The beggars opera; satire on corruption and Italian opera - hero is womanizer
Andrew marvell
To his coy mistress
Alexander pope
A essay on man; human beings can’t comprehend purpose of life, should not be godlike
jonathan swift
a modest propiosal, gullivers travels
william blake
london; society is mindforged manacles, everything is in chains
william wordswoth
composed upon wstministers bridge; wirte how you talk, patrarchan, way of seeing london, beautiful
john keats
on first look into chapmans homer; travelled in lit. petrarchan, lowerclass
percy bysshe shelley
ode to the wes wind, poeic stance, four eleents, wants fourh element, prophecy, typical romanic
lord tennyson
lady of shallot; painting lady weaving in tower, ges inspiration from mirror, sir lancelo rides in.
the charge of light brigade; crimean war, ballad-like
in memorian; poetic diary;for bff
robert browning victorian
caliban upon setebos; dramatic monologue
romantic
lewis carroll
jabberwocky; from through to looking glass,
leigh hunt
rondeu; hisorian victorian, with wife, became ill bu go beer, describes tha
elizabeth barret browning
sonne from the portugese; patrarchan, feeling of person, about husband, love letter
robert browning victorian
my last duchess; dramatic monologue, metrical iambic patrarchan, speaker gives away what is going on around him
christina rosetti
uphill; metaphor for life and death, puritan message - life is not meant to understand, god will recieve you in the end
metthew arnold
dover beach; overlooking beach, random rhyme, shadows off metrical pattern, free verse, speaking to person they love, nightime, active waterwithdraw of tide - safe in faith
rudyard kipling
if; natural poem, colonial era - british thought did good things, “when you go low, we go high”
james joyce
ulysses; stream of consiousness, great controvercy
ts eliot
the wasteland; similar to canterbury, time and waste, extends to all of society, wide range of references
rupert brooke
the soldier; comfort and hardship, buried, still english cause of him, starts like english, then patrarchan, early - war in theory
ts eliot poem
love song of j alfred prufrock; compares to patient, heroic/bulletproof, both hero and antihero, starts with dante: inferno, themes of depression, selfconsiousness, nonlinear, moments of anticlimax
wh. auden
musee des beaux arts; follows old master, life goes on, your worst day is anothers best
philip larkin
this be the verse; rhyme, metrical pattern, mix traditional and modern, get out of vicious circle
