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Write a short essay describing what you know about the history of the English Language.

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A mixture of languages original Celtic to old English.
French became the choice until Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Old, middle, and modern periods. (Development of the English language)
Date of Gutenberg press ad why it was formed:

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The Middle Ages

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450-1485

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The Old English Period

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450-1100

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The Renaissance

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1485-1688

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The Tudor Period

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1485-1603

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The Stuart Period

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1603-1688

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The Age of Revolution

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1688-1832

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The Neoclassical Period

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1688-1789

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The Romantic Period

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1789-1832

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The Age of Reform

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1832-Present

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The Victorian Period

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1832-1914

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The Modern Period

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1914-Present

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Rationalism can be defined as ___ of ___ in all area of ___.

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Rule, reason, life.

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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?

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By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials.

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What three main beliefs of Scripture did the deists reject?

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Deity of Christ,
Christ’s death and bodily resurrection,
and Miracles of scripture.

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What is the purpose of satire?

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To upbraid and to warn.

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What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?

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Journalistic realism.

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The essays found in Addison and Steele’s “The Tatler and The Spectator” are much like our present-day ___?

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Editorials.

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What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels?”

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To vex the world rather than to entertain it.

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What fundamental question does “An Essay on Man” seek to answer?

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“Why does evil exist?”

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List the reasons that the eighteenth century became a great age of hymnody.

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Hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control and the neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymnody. Isaac Watt’s…

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What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief?”

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Bee.

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The line “Thither the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?

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Periphrasis.

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Over what issue did the Wesley’s and Whitefield Sharply disagree?

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The Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement.

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According to John Wesley’s journal, he had a grasp of ___ and enjoyed ___ as well as ___ reading.

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Greek, secular, sacred.

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Name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.

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"And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
"Soldiers of Christ, Arise"
"Behold The Man!"
"The Beatific Sight"
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?

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Diligence.

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What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?

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“Journal of a Tour to The Hebrides”

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What is the verse form of “The Deserted Village?”

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Heroic couplets.

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According to Boswell, what trait of Johnson’s overshadows his shortcomings?

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Conversational abilities.

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What romantic elements are found in “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?”

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It’s description of rural landscape, it’s idealization of humble life, it’s use of natural description to generate a mood, it’s solitary meditation.

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The common element in all areas of romantic thinking - political, philosophical, and artistic - is ___ from ___.

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Freedom from limits.

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Robert Burns was known as the “___ - ___ ___.”

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Heaven-taught plowman.

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Unitarianism evaluates an actions’ goodness or badness based on its production of what?

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Happiness.

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List the elements that Christians would agree with romantics on:

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Human reason has limitations, intuition has some validity, and the individual has value.

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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

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The poet himself as the primary subject, a highly individual perspective, and an awe inspiring atmosphere.

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What is ironic about Blake’s inclusion of a graveyard in his “Garden of Love?”

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The garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death; Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s law will bring him only misery.

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What institutions of society does William Blake’s “London” condemn?

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Religion, government, and family.

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What did Wordsworth credit as being the major formative influence on his writing?

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Nature.

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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?

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The depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

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As a result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of ___ ___ ___.

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Modern literary criticism.

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How do the sailors punish the Mariner in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?”

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Hanging the dead albatross around its neck.

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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?

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Nostalgic daydreaming.

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The Byronic hero is characterized by what?

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Remorse and repentance.

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What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind?”

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

46
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Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic in what?

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The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature.

47
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What was the purpose of “Gulliver’s Travels?”

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To vex the world rather than to entertain it.

48
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Keats first unquestionably great poem was:

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“On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.”

49
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Name the three missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell where they served.

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William Carey: India
Hudson Taylor: China
David Livingston: Africa

50
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In “The Eve of St. Agnes,” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

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A storm.

51
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List the concepts true about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England.

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The periods Evangelicism said produced England’s greatest missionary effort,smoke of England’s finest hymns were produced, evangelicalism, tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns.

52
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___ ___ scholars had an even more devastating effect on the orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did ___ ideas.

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German biblical, Darwin’s.

53
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List the two areas in which Thomas Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England.

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Religious thought and social criticism.

54
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What did Newman firmly oppose?

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All attempt to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools.

55
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Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by what?

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The death of his best friend.

56
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Who is the “Pilot” in Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar?”

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“The divine and unseen who is always guiding us.”

57
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Who was the late - Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?

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Matthew Arnold.

58
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What new poetic genre did Robert Browning create?

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Dramatic monologue.

59
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What most affected Christina Rossetti’s writing?

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Seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets.

60
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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as ___.

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Parodies.

61
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What is Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?

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“Noble” rustics or contended pagans.

62
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Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” reflects what aspects?

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The lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from Christianity, hopeless of finding replacement for the Christian faith.

63
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Hopkin’s “sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm patter of what earlier type of poetry?

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Old English poetry.

64
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List the true statements about A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young.”

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Shows that the youth is praised for dying young and keeps honor even in death. It also demonstrates that fame dies more quickly than beauty does.

65
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In “The Kingdom of God”, Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because:

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Mans unredeemed nature prevents him from seeing them.

66
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Kipling’s “The Conversation of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?

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Tract.

67
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In Kipling’s story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin’s conversation?

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Overwork.

68
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Who as founder of modern psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

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Sigmund Freud.

69
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Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.

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Rationalism.

70
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What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?

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Existentialism.

71
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The typical modern poem relies on what?

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Rhythm.

72
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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?

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Didacticism.

73
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The moon imagery in Yeat’s “Adam’s Curse” foreshadows what?

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Disillusionment at the end of the poem.

74
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Yeats believed that answers for life were found in what?

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Art.

75
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Joyce’s “Ulysses” uses which method of development?

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Stream of consciousness.

76
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In Joyce’s “Araby”, why is the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?

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His uncle was late.

77
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Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois’ love of what?

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Sports.

78
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What does Virginia Woolf intend the rode to symbolize in “Three Pictures?”

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Life.

79
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In Woolf’s “Three Pictures”, what is the narrator’s response to the first picture?

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Satisfaction.

80
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In “Feuille D’Album” what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?

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Egg.

81
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What does the “tall tree” symbolize in MacNeice’s “The Truisms?”

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The final maturing of the son.

82
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In Katherine Mansfield’s stories, what literary element is of supreme importance?

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Atmosphere.

83
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Why can’t the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave’s “Coronation Address?”

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She does not take into account her husband’s feelings toward the matriarchy.

84
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Life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort.

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“Three Pictures”

85
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Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity with all of God’s creation.

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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

86
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“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”

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“Ulysses”

87
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All earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time.

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“Ozy Mandais”

88
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Determination in meeting the challenges of death.

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“Prospice”

89
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The loss of religion’s validity.

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“Araby”

90
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The remarkable power of God.

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“Wesley’s Journal”

91
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The superiority of Nature to books as a moral guide.

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“Tables Turned”

92
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To “vindicate the ways of God to man.”

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“Essay on Man”

93
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Any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work.

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“Adam’s Curse”

94
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“Essay on Criticism”

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Alexander Pope.

95
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“Coronation Address”

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Robert Graves.

96
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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

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William Wordsworth.

97
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“Winter”

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James Thomson.

98
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“When I Was One and Twenty”

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A. E. Housman.

99
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“The Deserted Village”

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Oliver Goldsmith.

100
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“The Tyger”

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William Blake.

101
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“A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns.

102
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Complied and edited the Dictionary of the English Journal.

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Samuel Johnson.

103
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Called “the English Chekhov.”

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Katherine Mansfield.

104
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Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins.

105
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Took part in a romantic elopement.

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Robert Browning.

106
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Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect.

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Robert Burns.

107
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After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism.

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John Henry Newman.

108
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Showed great talent, but died of tuberculosis at 26.

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John Keats.

109
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Poet laureate.

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John Dryden.

110
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Wrote satirical travel literature.

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Johnathan Swift.

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