Chapter 8 Flashcards
An attempt to portray or interpret the workings of the unconscious mind as manifested in dreams.
Surrealism
Satirical playwright who helped found the Fabian Society and who wrote Pygmalion.
Bernard Shaw
Who wrote “With Rue My Heart Is Laden” and “To an Athlete Dying Young”?
A. E. Housman
One of the greatest twentieth-century poets of the English language, the leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, who wrote “Down by the Salley Gardens,” “Adam’s Curse,” “The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “When You Are Old,” and “Under Ben Bulben.”
William Butler Yeats
In what poem does Alfred Edward Housman comment on the irony of fame and glory?
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
In what personal poem does William Butler Yeats express his views about the difficulty of laboring as a poet and as a lover?
“Adam’s Curse”
In what poem does William Butler Yeats describes a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem: “The best lack of all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”?
“The Second Coming”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick…”
“Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats
What promising young poet wrote “The Soldier”?
Rupert Brooke
The most traditional yet modern, influential yet influenced, poet of his time who wrote “Journey of the Magi” and “The Hollow Men.”
T. S. Eliot
What poet and dramatist wrote “The Unknown Citizen”?
W. H. Auden
Who wrote “In My Craft or Sullen Art” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”?
Dylan Thomas
The use of precise, concrete images; verse; and suggestion rather than complete statement.
Imagism
“Was he free? Was he happy?
The question is absurd.”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
“This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death?”
“Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot
What preacher and author wrote “The Hidden Years at Nazareth”: “Jesus was a carpenter pleasing God”?
G. Campbell Morgan
What preacher and author wrote “The School of Hunger”?
John Henry Jowett
What Bible teacher and missionary wrote “The Workship of the Work” from his Utmost for His Highest and “The Glories of the Desert Sky”?
Oswald Chambers
What missionary to India wrote If and “No Scar?”
Amy Carmichael
The first great writer of science fiction, one of the most significant genres of the twentieth-century.
H. G. Wells
Who wrote devastating attacks on Darwinism and vigorously defended historic Christianity?
G. K. Chesterton
Who chronicled the eventual conquest of good over evil in his forgettable fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings?
J. R. R. Tolkien
What form of literature answered the growing demand for brevity in writing and was established as a literary form in England through the influence of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling?
Short story
What master of the English language wrote “The Lagoon”?
Joseph Conrad
Who, famous for the detective mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, wrote “His Last Brow”?
Sir A. Conan Doyle
What English novelist and social critic wrote “Ignorance Is Strength” from Nineteen Eighty-Four, a political satire which warns of the horrors of a complete totalitarian society?
George Orwell
Who wrote The Railway Children?
E. (Edith) Nesbit
One of the greatest statesmen in the history of the world who gave a speech entitled “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.”
Winston Churchill
Apostle to the Skeptics and one of the most versatile writers of the twentieth century who defended Christian truth in his science fiction trilogy and who wrote The Screwtape Letters, a fictional satirical narrative.
C. S. Lewis
One of England’s most famous journalists and television personalities who was reared a Fabian Socialist yet who gave the address “Western Civilization: “To Be or Not to Be?”
Malcolm Muggeridge
