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Authurs Flashcards

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John dunne

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Metaphysical poets, sensual love poets, desto poetry, pens reflexions religion, varying from serious to light tone

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John Dunnes poems

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”Holt sonnets”, ”goding to bed”, “a valediction: forbidding mourning

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Edmunds spenser’s poem

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The fairie Queen,

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George Herbert’s poem

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Easter wings

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George Herbert

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Metaphysical poet, renaissance

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Edmund spenser

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Renaissance,

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Thomas Wyatt’s poem

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Whose list to hunt, Petrarchan

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Michael Drayton’a poem

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Since there’s no help, Elizabethan

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Shakespeare’s poetry

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O mistress mine: carpe diem, upptakt

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Robert herrick’a poem

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To virgins to make much time; Elizabethan pattern, 16 lines, varying beats

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Sir Philip Sidney’s poem

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From astrophel and stella; petrarchan sonnet, stella virtue and beauty, Volta is he still want to be with her

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Edmund spenser’s poem

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From amoretti;

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Sir Thomas more

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Utopia; no place; journey to imaginary country

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John Bunyan’poems

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The pilgrims progress;

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John dryden’s poems

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Annus mirabilis; year of wonders(war, plague the great fire of london

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Samuel pepys

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The diary; wrote about London; fire of london

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John wilmot/ earl of rochester

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Love and life; convincing mistress, all we have is the moment; scandalising

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William Congreve

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Way of the world; complex play, unlikeable characters

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John gay

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The beggars opera; satire on corruption and Italian opera - hero is womanizer

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Andrew marvell

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To his coy mistress

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Alexander pope

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A essay on man; human beings can’t comprehend purpose of life, should not be godlike

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jonathan swift

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a modest propiosal, gullivers travels

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william blake

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london; society is mindforged manacles, everything is in chains

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william wordswoth

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composed upon wstministers bridge; wirte how you talk, patrarchan, way of seeing london, beautiful

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john keats

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on first look into chapmans homer; travelled in lit. petrarchan, lowerclass

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percy bysshe shelley

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ode to the wes wind, poeic stance, four eleents, wants fourh element, prophecy, typical romanic

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lord tennyson

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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

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robert browning victorian

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caliban upon setebos; dramatic monologue
romantic

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lewis carroll

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jabberwocky; from through to looking glass,

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leigh hunt

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rondeu; hisorian victorian, with wife, became ill bu go beer, describes tha

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elizabeth barret browning

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sonne from the portugese; patrarchan, feeling of person, about husband, love letter

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robert browning victorian

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my last duchess; dramatic monologue, metrical iambic patrarchan, speaker gives away what is going on around him

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christina rosetti

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uphill; metaphor for life and death, puritan message - life is not meant to understand, god will recieve you in the end

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metthew arnold

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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

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rudyard kipling

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if; natural poem, colonial era - british thought did good things, “when you go low, we go high”

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james joyce

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ulysses; stream of consiousness, great controvercy

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ts eliot

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the wasteland; similar to canterbury, time and waste, extends to all of society, wide range of references

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rupert brooke

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the soldier; comfort and hardship, buried, still english cause of him, starts like english, then patrarchan, early - war in theory

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ts eliot poem

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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

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wh. auden

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musee des beaux arts; follows old master, life goes on, your worst day is anothers best

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philip larkin

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this be the verse; rhyme, metrical pattern, mix traditional and modern, get out of vicious circle

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