Brit Lit Flashcards
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Clym Yeobright
Return of the Native
One character plays the Turkish Knight in the play “Saint George” in this novel
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy poem written in response to the sinking of the Titanic
Convergence of the Twain
Adapted by Simon Armitage written shortly after 9/11 terrorist attacks
Convergence of the Twain
A creature crawls “over the mirrors meant/to glass the opulent” in this poem
Convergence of the Twain
Dead Man Walking
Thomas Hardy
“fling[ed] his soul/upon the growing gloom”
The Darkling Thrush
“The Darkling Thrush”
Thomas Hardy poem
“leaning upon a coppice gate”
The Darkling Thrush
His wife is Emma Gifford, wrote the poems “Rain on a Grave” and “After a Journey” for her
Thomas Hardy
A book about a former milkmaid set in the fictional English county of Wessex
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Wife of Angel Clare
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead
Jude the Obscure
Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy
Little Father Time
Jude the Obscure
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D H Lawrence
Eusatasia Vye
The Return of the Native
Michael Henchard
Mayor of Casterbridge
Lucetta
Mayor of Casterbridge
Donald Farfrae
Mayor of Casterbridge
A footnote with an “isolated and weird character”
The Return of the Native
“The Ruined Maid”
Thomas Hardy
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
A man called “most original moralist in England” takes ten pounds instead of five and explains that “undeserving poverty is my line” in this play
Pygmalion
Adapted into the musical My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Eliza Doolittle
Pygmalion
This play begins in Covent Garden
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering
Pygmalion
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw
A character in this play is called a “squashed cabbage leaf”
Pygmalion
Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
Raina Petkoff
Arms and the Man
The servant girl Louka
Arms and the Man
War with the Newts
Karel Čapek
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
This play’s title comes from the Aeneid
Arms and the Man
Candida
George Bernard Shaw
Quintessence of Ibsenism (about Hedda Gabler)
George Bernard Shaw
The main character of this play is dressed in a blue kimono by the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce
Pygmalion
“What Happened Afterward”
George Bernard Shaw
Character portrayed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Eliza Doolittle
This play has a woman who yells “not bloody likely!”
Pygmalion
Adolphus Cusins
Major Barbara
Ode on Melancholy
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
This poem address Love, Ambition, and Poesy
Ode on Indolence
“Thou wast not born for death” and asks “do I wake or sleep?”
Ode to a Nightingale
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Adonais (dedicated to Keats)
Percy Shelley
This poem was originally published under the pseudonym “Caviare”
La Belle Dame sans Merci
La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
“Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”
John Keats
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
John Keats
Endymion
A narrative poem by John Keats
Holy Sonnets/Divine Sonnets/Divine Meditations
John Donne
“A Valediction of My Name, In the Window”
John Donne
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
John Donne
Author analysed in TS Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets”
John Donne
“The Canonization”
John Donne
“Death, be not proud”
Holy Sonnets (Sonnet 10)
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Christopher Marlowe
“Come live with me and be my love” is the opening line of this pastoral love poem
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Husband of Anne More
John Donne
“Slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”
Death, be not proud
“The Second Coming”
William Butler Yeats
“Sailing to Byzantium”
William Butler Yeats
“slouches towards Bethlehem to be born”
“The Second Coming”
“Easter, 1916”
William Butler Yeats
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”
“The Second Coming”
“Michael Robartes and the Dancer”
William Butler Yeats
“The Wanderings of Oisín”, and epic poem
William Butler Yeats
“an aged man as a paltry thing”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
The speaker’s heart is “fastened to a dying animal” in this poem
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Among School Children”
William Butler Yeats
“things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
“The Second Coming”
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
William Butler Yeats
“The Final Problem”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“the Speckled Band”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This man believed in the Cottingley Fairies and was mocked by Harry Houdini
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger discovers dinosaurs in South America in this novel
The Lost World
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Sonnet 43)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
“Yes, call me by my pet-name!” (Sonnet 33)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
The narrator of this poem loves the addressee “freely as men strive for right”
Sonnet 43 (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Weird Sisters
The witches from Macbeth
“L’allegro”
John Milton
“Il Penseroso”
John Milton
Areopagitica
John Milton
This poem features the invocations of Saturn, Vesta, and Urania
Il Penseroso
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour
Kidnapped
Captain Hoseason
Kidnapped
The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
This poem opens when the “siege and assault had ceased at Troy”
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lord Bertilak
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
AE Housman
“When I was one-and-twenty”
AE Housman
Korova Milk Bar
A Clockwork Orange
Welsh poet, “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Dylan Thomas
“Fern Hill”
Dylan Thomas
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Dylan Thomas
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
Ode to a Mouse
Robert Burns
“Sylvan historian”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
This poem mentions “forest branches” and “trodden weed” and the “dales” of paradise
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“My Last Duchess”
Robert Browning
Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Browning
“Caliban upon Setebos”
Robert Browning
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
Robert Browning
Described Fra Pandolf’s painting of a woman whose heart was “too soon made glad”
Robert Browning
Has a satire of Calvinism subtitled “Natural Theology in the Island”
Robert Browning
Mr Enfield
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Inspector Newcomen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gabriel Utterson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This poem ends with a description of a bronze statue by Claus of Innsbruck, depicting Neptune riding a seahorse
“My Last Duchess”
In a poem from this collection, the speaker claims to be made of “elements and an angelic sprite”
The Holy Sonnets
Robert Walton
Frankenstein
“The Dead”
James Joyce
Gabriel Conroy
“The Dead”
The tenor Bartell D’Arcy sings “The Lass of Aughrim” in this story
“The Dead”
Miss Ivors
“The Dead”
Guests begin to sing “For they are jolly good fellows” in this story
“The Dead”
Misses Morkin
“The Dead”
Michael Furey (who is dead)
“The Dead”
The protagonist of this novel is taken aboard the Covenant under orders from his uncle Ebenezer
Kidnapped
The Island of Doctor Moreau
HG Wells
Edward Prendick
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter
The hitmen Ben and Gus
The Dumbwaiter
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter
Stanley Webber
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
The Birthday Party
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
Clarissa gives the Baron a pair of scissors
The Rape of the Lock
Cave of Spleen
The Rape of the Lock
The gnome Umbriel
The Rape of the Lock
“twelve vast French Romances”
The Rape of the Lock
“What mighty contests rise from trivial things”
The Rape of the Lock
Jack Worthing
The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon Moncrieff
The Importance of Being Earnest
Miss Prism
The Importance of Being Earnest
Gwendolen Fairfax
The Importance of Being Earnest
A servant prepares cucumber sandwiches which are eaten before the guests arrive in this play
The Importance of Being Earnest
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding
The Female Husband
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
Bilfil
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Shamela
Henry Fielding
Sophia Western
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“Goblin Market”
Christina Rossetti
“Pied Beauty”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“The Wreck of Deutschland”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“To Autumn”
John Keats
“The Narrow Way”
Anne Bronte
“The Three Guides”
Anne Bronte
The tenant of Wildfell Hill
Anne Bronte
“uffish thought”
“The Jabberwocky”
“Agony in Eight Fits”
Lewis Carroll
“The Hunting of the Snark”
Lewis Carroll
“To a Skylark”
Percy Shelley
“The Lark Ascending”
George Meredith
“Returning, We Hear the Larks”
Isaac Rosenberg
“Joy—joy—strange joy” and “heights of night”
“Returning, we hear the larks”
