D List Flashcards
Writers I felt I have unheard of and writers I felt only "heard" of
Maya Angelou(1928-): Intro
Autobiographer born in St. Louis, Missouri.
[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(1970)]: Harrowing childhood in Arkansas
Maya Angelou(1928-) “I know why the caged bird sings”: Quotes
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.
Maya Angelou(1928-) “The Black Family Pledge”: Quotes
BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,
our children no longer give us honor.
Maya Angelou(1928-) “In All Ways A Woman”: Quotes
“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”
John Berryman(1914-1972): Intro
Born John Smith in Oklahoma but took stepfather’s name after father’s suicide.
Anguished and confessional, personal guilts and religious doubts. Witty, organized if idiosyncratic.
John Berryman(1914-1972): Works
[77 Dream Songs (1964)] has imaginary protean protagonist Henry, completed by [His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968)]
John Berryman(1914-1972) “Dream Song 76 (Henry’s Confession)”: Quotes
“A bullet on a concrete stoop
close by a smothering southern sea
spreadeagled on an island, by my knee.”
John Berryman(1914-1972) “Sonnet 13”: Quotes
“We shared today not even filthy weather,
Beasts in the hills their tigerish love are snarling”
John Berryman(1914-1972) “Henry’s pelt was put on…”: Quotes
“To Henry in his sparest times sometimes
the little people spread, & did friendly things;
then he was glad.”
Jorge Luis Borges(1899-1986): Style
Argentinian writer and poet.
Cyclical nature of time.
Forms themselves are labyrinthine, metaphysical speculations, dreamlike in endlessly reflected facets of reality^arcane knowledge.
Jorge Luis Borges(1899-1986): Dreamlike?
Stories of real and fictional criminals, some ascribed to fictional authors. Truth, fiction, identity, violence… puzzles of detective fiction.
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Intro
Born in England then immigrated to U.S. with father and husband. Received attention both as a woman writer and the first poet of the U.S. Her later shorter poems are now more highly regarded than longer historical^philosophical discourses.
John Berryman made a tribute ([Homage to Mistress Bradstreet(1956)]
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) “The Prologue(1643?)” : Quotes
“A Bartas can do what a Bartas will; / But simple I according to my skill.”
“If what I do prove well, it won’t advance; They’ll say it’s stol’n, or else it was by chance.”
“Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are; / Men have precedency and still excel.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old(1665)” : Quotes
“Farewell dear babe, my heart’s too much content”
“By nature trees do rot when they are grown. / And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall”
“But plants new set to be eradicate, / And buds new blown, to have so short a date, / Is by His hand alone that guides nature and fate.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) “Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666(1666)” : Quotes
“Here stood that trunk, and there that chest; / There lay that store I counted best”
“Didst fix thy hope on mould’ring dust? / The arm of flesh didst make thy trust?”
“Thou hast an house on high erect, / Fram’d by that mighty Architect”
Anne Brontë (1820-1849): Works (Novels)
Over-indulged young children and wordly older children from houses where Brontë served as governess depicted in [Agnes Gray(1847)].
[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1848)] depicts Arthur Huntington, infantile and violent yet sexually attractive drunkard. Possibly indictment against sexual double standards.
Anne Brontë (1820-1849): Works (Poems)
[Agnes Gray(1847)], her poems, along with some of her sisters, published in 1846 under pseudonym Acton Bell.
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) “Song: we know where deepest lies the snow” : Info
Gondal lyric. Gondal is an imaginary land Anne developed with Emily Brontë.
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) “Song: we know where the deepest lies the snow” : Quotes
“But where we late were hunted, there / Our foes are hunted now.”
“But I would rather be the hare, / That crouching in its sheltered lair … Or in the tangled corpse to hide, / Than be the hunters hound.”
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) [Agnes Gray(1847)] : Synopsis
Agnes goes to work at the Wellwood house for the Bloomsfield family, who spoil their children (Tom Bloomsfield tortures small animals). Agnes then goes to the Murrays, Matilda is a tomboy and Rosalie a flirt. She befriends old woman Nancy Brown and acquaints Mr. Edward Weston.
Rosalie marries Sir Thomas Ashby, resulting in unhappy marriage. She begs Agnes to visit. Agnes does, then marries Edward Weston.
Robert Burns(1759-1796) : Intro
Wrote in both Scottish and English. Songs, verse letters, satires, animal poems and ‘Tam o’Shanter’.
“heaven-taught ploughsman”.
Contribution to [The Scots Musical Museum]. Scottish poems indebted to early Scottish poets (Ramsay) and 18th cen. Scottish poets (Fergusson).
Emily Brontë (1820-1849) [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1848)]: Synopsis (Part 2)
Helen is wife of Arthur Huntington, who uses his flirtation with Annabella to pressure Helen into marrying him. He is jealous of his own son who is also Arthur (and whom he persuades into drinking and swearing.)
Arthur Huntington courts Annabella who is now Lady Lowborough, Walter Hargrave (brother of Helen’s friend Millicent Hargrave) gives Helen unwanted affection.
Arthur’s treatment of Arthur jr. convinces Helen to take her son and flee.
Emily Brontë (1820-1849) [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1848)]: Synopsis (Part 3)
Helen returns to Grassdale where her husband is because he is gravely ill. Her husband is terrified of prospect of hell even to his death.
Helen then lives in her estate in Staningley. Mr. Lawrence marries Helen’s friend Esther Hargrave. Helen and Gilbert marry.
Robert Burns(1759-1796) “To a Mouse(1785)” : Quotes
“Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, / O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!”
“Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! / It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!”
“But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, / In proving foresight may be vain”
Robert Burns(1759-1796) “Auld Lang Syne(1788)”: Quotes
“We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet / For auld lang syne.”
“And surely ye’ll be your pint stowp! / And surely I’ll be mine!”
“And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!”
Albert Camus(1913-1960): Intro
French novelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist. Implications of the ‘absurd’ nature of human condition.
[L’ étranger(1942)], [La Peste(1947)] are novels.
Wrote stage adaptation for Faulkner’s [Requiem for a Nun(1951)] in 1956.
Albert Camus(1913-1960) [La Peste(1947)]: Synopsis
Dr. Rieux is one of the first people to notice the plague, whose wife dies in a mental institution. He survives to the end saving people.
Raymond wants to escape to see his wife, and survives to the end to see her.
Tarrou treats patients, accompanies Raymond to an opera, dies after plague dies out.
Father Paneloux uses suffering of people to further attendance in church then dies himself.
Cottard is a smuggler who suffers from guilt but also flourishes mentally and financially from the plague.
Thomas Carew (1594-1640): Intro
Wrote the elegy for John Donne.
Cavalier poet - graceful and witty… cynical.
“A Rapture” is an erotic and “To Saxham” is a country-house poem.
Thomas Carew(1594-1640) “A Rapture” : Quotes
“I will enjoy thee now, my Celia, come / And fly with me to love’s Elysium.”
“My rudder with thy bold hand like a tried / And skillful pilot thou shalt steer”
“The Roman Lucrece there reads the divine / Lectures of love’s great master, Aretine”
William Cowper(1731-1800): Intro
Suffered from depression and attempted suicide multiple times, started writing satire at recommendation.
Playful, delicate wit. Tranquility. Sympathy for nature.
William Cowper(1731-1800) [The Task Book I (1785)]: Quotes
“overthwart the stream / That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale”
“Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, / Yet heard in scenes where peace forever reigns”
“but needful food, / Though pressed with hunger oft … asks never.–Kate is crazed!”
Hart Crane(1899-1932): Intro
American poet born in Ohio. [White Buildings(1926), [The Bridge(1930)].
[The Bridge(1930)] explores the “Myth of America”, with symbols such as Brookyn Bridge and Colombus, Pocahontas, Rip Van Winkle. Echoes of Whitman.
Hart Crane(1899-1932) [The Bridge(1930)] - “Van Winkle”: Quotes
“And Cortes rode up, reining tautly in– / Firmly as coffee grips the taste,–and away!”
“[And Rip forgot the office hours, / and he forgot the pay; / Van Winkle sweeps a tenement / down town on Avenue A,–]”
“It flickered through the snow screen, blindly / It forsook her at the doorway;”
R. H. Dana, Jr. (1815-1882): Intro
Richard Henry Dana Jr, son of poet and journalist Richard Henry Dana(1787-1879). Broke off Harvard education to become a sailor.
R. H. Dana, Jr. (1815-1882) [Two Years before the Mast(1840)]: Synopsis
In Alta California involved in hide trade. Learned Mexican and befriended Kanaka. Was against their abuse from the captain.
Witnesses icebergs, another flogging from the captain of the steward. Dana Jr. thinks of the need of religiosity among seamen.
A note “Twenty-Four Years After(1869)” recounting the aftermath of some people and the ship [Alert] (destroyed in Civil War 1862).
John Dos Passos (1896-1970): Intro
Was a soldier and wrote about war. Novel [Three Soldiers (1921)], poetry, essays, memoirs, travel writings, plays.
[U.S.A. (1938)] Trilogy: [The 42nd Parallel(1930)], [1919(1932)], [The Big Money(1936)]
John Dos Passos(1896-1970) [U.S.A. (1938)] Trilogy: Content
Interlocking and parallel narratives against a panoramic collage (news reel, songs, advertisements) of real-life events. Commentary of the author as “The Camera Eye”.
John Dos Passos(1896-1970) [U.S.A. (1938)] [The 42nd Parallel(1930)]: Quotes
"We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work." "Young men go west; / Luther Burbank went to Santa Rosa / full of his dream of green grass in winter ever-" "While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free."
George Gascoigne(1534-1577): Intro
Soldier and Poet. Many of his works published in [The Posies of George Gascoigne] (first published without his knowledge in 1573).
[The Adventures of Master F.J.] a strange Chaucerian novella of sexual intrigue whose supposed Italian source is not found.
[Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English]: pioneering account on English versification.
George Gascoigne(1534-1577) [Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English]: Quotes
“If I should vndertake to wryte in prayse of a gentlewoman, I would neither praise hir christal eye, nor hir cherrie lippe, etc.”
“I will next aduise you that you hold the iust measure wherewith you begin your verse.”
“I would exhorte you also to beware of rime without reason”
Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865): Intro
Active humanitarian and called for better understanding between workers and employers. Keen observer of human behavior and researcher of background of her novels. Relationships with Charlotte Brontë and John Ruskin. Professional acquaintance with Charles Dickens.
Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865): Works
[Cranford(1853)], [Wives and Daughters(1866)] were novels. [Cousin Phillis(1864)] was one of the warm-hearted novellas.
Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865) [Cousin Phillis(1864)]: Characters
Narrator and Phillis’ cousin Paul Manning, his father Mr. Manning, and his business partner Mr. Ellison.
Mr Edward Holdsworth and later his wife, Miss Lucille Ventadur.
Independent church minister Mr. Holman, Mrs. Holman, Phillis Holman, their servant Betty.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860-1935): Intro
American feminist journalist. “The Yellow Wallpaper(1892)” was published in [New England Magazine].
[Women and Economics(1898)], [The Home: Its Work and Influence(1903)].
William Dean Howells(1837-1920): Intro
U. S. novelist, once U. S. consul at Venice.
Editor for Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Magazine.
Romances: [The Rise of Silas Lapham(1885)] and [Indian Summer(1886)]
Interest in socialism^social realism [A Hazard of New Fortunes(1890)]
William Dean Howells(1837-1920) [The Rise of Silas Lapham(1885)]: Synopsis
Silas Lapham used to be obsessed with family connections but refuses to sell the mills at the higher price and move back to the farm in Vermont. He also helps Zuerilla Millon, who is a daughter of a man who saved Silas’ life in the army.
Persis is the moral wife, Penelope is a sensible daughter, Irene is frivolous. They become associated with Tom Corey and his economical father Bromfield. Irene thought Tom loved her but Tom loves Penelope ([Tears, Idle Tears])
Mr. Rogers gets caught in Silas’ eventual decline.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864): Intro
Walter Savage Landor(1775-1864) “Dirce”: Quotes
Stand close around, ye Stygian set,
With Dirce in one boat conveyed!
Or Charon, seeing, may forget
That he is old and she a shade.
Hugh Latimer(?1492-1555): Intro
Simple vernacular style and graphic and vivid illustrations. Sermon ‘of the plough’ delivered in 1548.
Appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1535 but resigned because he couldn’t support the Act of the Six Articles. Sent to London Tower in 1553 by Mary’s Ascension and burned in 1555 (causing reformation of England).
T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935): Intro
Deeply interested in archaeology and Middle East, involved with British Intelligence. “Lawrence of Arabia.”
Arab Revolt: [The Seven Pillars of Wisdom(1926)], advised by E. M. Forster and G. B. Shaw.
Shortened version [Revolt in the Desert (1927)], war romantic.
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957): Intro
Criticized hollowness^mechanization of 20th cen. (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence) but satirized Bloomsbury Group and associated himself with fascism.
Novels: Tarr(1918), The Apes of God(1930)
Essays: “Paleface” “The Diabolical Principle” “The Revolutionary Simpleton”
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957): Vorticism
Embraces all things mechanical (futurism), has roots in cubism and the Bloomsbury Group. Expresses movements in an image.
Malcolm Lowry(1909-1957): Intro
Under influence of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Eugene O’Neill.
[Ultramarine(1933)] [Under the Volcano(1947)]
Malcolm Lowry(1909-1957) [Under the Volcano(1947)]: Synopsis
An alcoholic British Consul (Geoffrey Firmin) in Quauhnahuac, on the day of the dead (November 2nd). There are two volcanoes overshadowing the cast, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl.
Yvonne Constable dies at the end with Geoffrey, and perhaps had affairs with Hugh Firmin (Geoffrey’s half-brother) and Jacques Laruelle (childhood friend).
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950): Intro
Persona as romantic, reckless, cynical, ‘naughty’ New Woman (this comes to affect the women after). Poems like “The Penitent” and “My Candle Burns at Both Ends”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) “First Fig”: Quotes
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a wonderful light.
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964): Intro
Southern Gothic. “clear, hard, vivid”. Religious fanaticism.
[Wise Blood(1952)]
[The Violent Bear it Away(1960)]
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) [The Violent Bear it Away(1960)]: Synopsis
Francis Tarwater was kidnapped by self-proclaimed prophet great-uncle Mason Tarwater to become a prophet in turn. He neglects to give Mason a christian burial in favor of his inner voice and goes to uncle Rayber. Mason had told Francis to baptize uncle Rayber and Aunt Bernice’s son Bishop but Francis baptizes him while drowning him. Rayber faints because he feels nothing at his son’s death. Buford, a black man, is revealed to have given Mason a christian burial and Francis goes to the city to warn about God.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703): Intro
Wrote [Diary] in 1st of January 1660 when he was living in Axe Yard, Westminster, and very poor. He gets appointed as ‘clerk of the king’s ships’ and of the privy seal. He stopped his diary on 31st of May 1669 in fear of his eyesight, and also his wife died that year. He also wrote an interesting diary in 1683 when he was sent to Tangier with Lord Dartmouth.
Samuel Pepys(1633-1703) [Diary]: Quotes
“Blessed be God, at the end of last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.”
“Home and so to bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled.”
“Up and spent most of the morning upon my measuring Ruler and with great pleasure I have found out some things myself of great dispatch, more than my book teaches me, which pleases me mightily.”
Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891): Intro
French poet against religious, political, literary orthodoxy, fascination with cabbalistic and alchemical imagery.
Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891): Works
“Le Bateau ivre” hymn to the quest of unknown realities.
[Les Illuminations]: visionary possibilities of disorienting the senses ([Une saison en enfer], its moral and psychological failure.)
Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891) “Le Bateau ivre” Quotes:
“As I was going down impassive Rivers, / I no longer felt myself guided by haulers; / Yelping redskins had taken them as targets / And had nailed them naked to colored stakes.”
Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891) [Les Illuminations VI] “Being Beauteous”: Quotes
“Whistling of death and the circling of faint music make this adored body rise, expand and quiver like a spectre; wounds of scarlet and black burst from superb flesh.”
“The cannon I must assault through the melee of trees and the weightless air!”
John Ruskin(1819-1900): Intro
“function as interpreter”. Taken by beauty of nature.
[Stones of Venice(1851)]. “pathetic fallacy”.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Intro
Freethinker, supporter of women’s rights and radical reform of the voting system, equal pay.
Also campaigned for the simplification of spelling and punctuation … reform of English alphabet.
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950): Ideology
Conflict of thought and belief, not neuroses or physical passion.
Humor and love of paradox.
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) [Mrs. Warren’s Profession]: Characters
Vivie Warren refuses to do anything with her mother Mrs. Warren, and rejects proposal from Mrs. Warren’s business partner Sir George Crofts. She also does this with Frank (son of Reverend Samuel Gardner), the possibility of being half-siblings irrelevant.
Praed is an architect and artist friend associating with Mrs. Warren who witnesses all this go down, ending the scene in Vivie’s office in Chancery Lane.
Charles Algernon Swinburne(1837-1909): Intro
Preoccupation of sadomasochism, femme fatales, and repudiation of Christianity.
Range of meter. Classical, burlesque, modern and mock-antique ballads.
Charles Algernon Swinburne(1837-1909) [Poems and Ballads(1866)] “Faustine”: Quotes
“Let me go over your good gifts / That crown you queen; / A queen whose kingdom ebbs and shifts / Each week, Faustine.”
“Wine and rank poison, milk and blood, / Being mixed therein / Since first the devil threw dice with God / For you, Faustine.”
“What adders came to shed their coats? / What coiled obscene / Small serpents with soft stretching throats / Caressed Faustine?”
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850): Intro
[Comédie Humaine], series of interconnected stories. Authentic^comprehensive fictional representation of France in latter 18th and early 19th cen.
Analogies between novelist and natural scientist^historian.
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850): Interests in [Comédie Humaine].
Supernatural and mysterious.
Operations of the passions.
Money shaping personal^social relations
Effect of environment on individual^Courses of action for social fulfillment.
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850) [Comédie Humaine] [Le Cousine Bette]: Synopsis
Madame Hulot’s cousin Bette resents her daughter Hortense for stealing her sweetheart. She works with unhappily married Valérie Marneffe to seduce a number of men (one of them Baron Hector Hulot, married to Bette’s cousin Adeline) and ruin the Hulot family with infamy and financial insecurity.
Samuel Butler(1613-1680): Intro
His most notable work seems to be [Hudibras]. He primarily wrote satires.
Mock romance in strain of Don Quixote (Sir Hudibras and squire Ralpho).
Samuel Butler(1613-1680) [Hudibras(1663)]: Synopsis
Hudibras and Ralpho are stuck in stocks after fighting a bear-baiting mob. A widow Hudibras hopes to marry promises them release and Hudibras kills charlatan Sidrophel. He is then beaten by a gang to admit his iniquities.
Third part is an account of events between Cromwell’s death and ascension of Charles II.
Samuel Butler(1613-1680) [Hudibras(1663)]: Allusions
Theological differences
Aristotelian logic
Witchcraft, alchemy, astrology
(All erudition with contempt)
Samuel Butler(1613-1680) [Hudibras(1663)]: Style
Cumbersome octosyllabic meter and comic rhymes
Samuel Butler(1835-1902): Intro
[Erewhon(1872)] is largely based on [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement(1863)], Butler’s letters during his time as sheep-farmer.
Criticized certain aspects of Darwin’s natural selection theory, won praise from Shaw for creative evolution views and voice on religion.
[The Way of All Flesh(1903)] semi autobiographical novel published posthumously.
Samuel Butler(1835-1902)] [Erewhon(1872)]: Details
Satirical, names including the title are anagrams.
The narrator discovers Erewhon and escapes jail by beautiful jailer Yram, lodges with Mr. Nosnibor. Health and beauty is moral, illness is immoral, the Unborn select their parents. Musical Banks produce money that is revered but unused, development of machinery is forbidden due to civil war. So-called philosophers and prophets are fanatics and faddists. Higgs(narrator) escapes and marries daughter of Nosnibor, Arowhena.
Samuel Butler(1835-1902) [The Way of All Flesh(1903)]: Synopsis
John Pontifax is a natural instinctive great-grandfather, George and Theo are respectively tyrannical grandfather and father. Ernest is thrown into prison for mistaking a respectable woman for a prostitute and is entangled with the drunk maid Ellen. He is helped to concentrate on literature by Aunt Althea.
Thomas Chatterton(1752-1770): Intro
Worked as apprentice to an attorney, produced fake pedigrees, deeds, documents. Wrote poems for an imaginary 15th cen. British poet Thomas Rowley, monk and friend of a historical merchant William Canynge. An excellent piece is “An Excelente Balade of Charitie.”
His life and death had a profound impact on the Romanticist mind.
Thomas Chatterton(1752-1770) “An Excelente Balade of Charitie”: Quotes
“The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle; / The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine”
“His cope was all of Lyncolne clothe so fyne, / With a gold button fasten’d neere his chynne”
“‘Here take this silver, it maie eathe thie care; / We are Goddes stewards all, nete of oure owne we bare.”
W. E. B. Du Bois(1868-1963): Intro
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, activist and author. Criticized Booker T. Washington for being insufficiently militant about black rights. Became increasingly anti-imperial, went to Ghana year before his death and became a citizen.
[The Souls of Black Folk(1903)].
W. E. B. Du Bois(1868-1963) [The Souls of Black Folk(1903)]: Content
Each chapter opens with epigraph (poem from European writer, spiritual song score).
“Double Consciousness” : black people need to be aware of how they view themselves and how society views them
“the Veil” : black people’s views on economy, politics, social economy are very different from that of white people and inaccessible.
George Eliot (1819-1880): Intro
Affectionate portrayals of clergymen and dissenters (Christians without formal order).
Domestic realism, pathos, humor, and heterodox of regarding religion as an imaginary necessity to encourage interest in fellow humans.
George Eliot (1819-1880): Works
Contribution to [Westminster Review] in 1850.
[Middlemarch(1870)], [Daniel Deronda(1874)], “Agatha(1879)”
George Eliot(1819-1880) [Middlemarch(1870): Synopsis
Dorothea Brooke marries Casaubon to help him in his research>take on a noble project. Casaubon is only interested in his work. Tertius Lydgate is a doctor with newfangled ideas who marries Rosamond Vincy, which ends up badly, but Tertius dies early. Casaubon also dies leaving Dorothea with his young cousin Will Ladislaw, despite his saying to disinherit Dorothea if she does.
George Etherege(?1634-1691): Intro
Serious portions in rhymed heroics, Comical realistic portions in prose - later inspired William Congreve.
[The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub(1664)]
[She Wou’d if She Cou’d (1668)]
[The Man of Mode(1676)]
Henry Fielding(1707-1754): Intro
Wrote much biting and humorous satire, one of his masters was Jonathan Swift and his descendant Charles Dickens.
Successfully suggested and implemented plans to break up London criminal gangs.
Henry Fielding(1707-1754): 6 Works
[Champion] Contributed to anti-Jacobean journal 1739-1740
[An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews(1741)]
[The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr Abraham Adams(1742)]
[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling(1746)]
[Amelia(1751)]
E. M. Forster(1879-1970): Intro
Edward Morgan Forster.
Free intellectual discussion and important personal relationships. Satirized British tourists distrusting everything foreign.
Close relationships with Indian and Egyptian people. Wrote several stories with homosexual themes.
E. M. Forster(1879-1970): Works
[Where Angels Fear to Tread(1905)]
{A Room with a View(1908)]
[A Passage to India(1924)]
Langston Hughes(1902-1967): Intro
Harlem Renaissance. Tried almost every genre. 1920s interest in primitivism made the public receptive to blues rhythms.
Langston Hughes(1902-1967): Works
Langston Hughes(1902-1967) “The Weary Blues(1926)” Quotes:
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon”
“He did a lazy sway . . . . / He did a lazy sway . . . . “
“He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.”
John Lyly(?1554-1606): Intro
Flexible use of dramatic prose, elegant pattering of construction.
[Euphues: The Anantomy of Wit(1578)]
John Lyly(?1554-1606) [Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit(1578)]: Plot and Style
Plot: Athenian Euphues goes to Naples and meets Philautus, become friends, chase him away from Lucilla then is ousted by Curio. He reconciles with Philautus.
Style: Excessive use of antitheses regardless of sense. Alliteration. Rhetorical questions. Allusion to historical and mythic figures.
William Langland(?1330-?1386) [Piers Plowman(1380)]: Structure
Story proceeds along Visions, and is divided into Passus.
Vision 1. Lady Holy Church expounds worldly values, Lady Meed undergoes trial.
Vision 2. Sermon by Reason, Confession by Seven Deadly Sins, Pilgrimage to Truth, Pardon (given by Truth)
… Piers undergoes transformation to become Christlike figure.
Marcel Proust(1871-1922): Works
In 1899 discovered John Ruskin’s art criticism and translated some of it.
[Pastiches et mélanges]: Literary parodies
Marcel Proust(1871-1922) [A la recherche du temps perdu(1927): Themes
Homosexual relations in which the narrator is aloof but knowledgeable. Both between men and women.
Taste of madeleine transports the narrator to the madeleine given to him by his aunt in childhood(solipsism?).
Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926): 4 Works
German lyric poet.
[Das Stunden-buch(1905)]: Highly individualized death
[Das Buch der Bilder(1902)]: Objective development
[Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge(1910)]: Sensitive poet and threatening environment - prose
[Die Sonnette an Orpheus(1923)]: satisfactory position of a poet in midst of decay
Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) “Song of the Little Cripple in the Street Corner” : Quotes
“Maybe God didn’t like
The look of my face when He saw it.
Sometimes a big dog
Looks right into it.”
John Skelton(?1460-1529): Skeltonics
“Headlong breathless doggerel, with clashing quick-recurring rhymes”
Ex) For though my ryme be ragged,
Tattered and jagged,
Rudely rayne-beaten,
Rusty and mothe-eaten… [Collyn Clout]
John Skelton(?1460-1529): Works
John Webster(?1578-?1632): Intro
Satirist and moralist, collaborated with other dramatists. Reputation was second only to Shakespeare.
[The Duchess of Malfi(1623)]
[The White Devil(1612)]
Edith Wharton(1862-1937): Intro
Wrote about the conflict between social and individual fulfillment leading to tragedy. Observant, witty, satirical portrayal of social nuance. Friendship with Henry James.
Edith Wharton(1862-1937): 3 Works
Fyodor Dostoyevsky(1821-1881): Intro
Extraordinary character analysis^profound religious and political ideas
Admirer of Dickens (many allusions), city, children, crime (suffering of the innocent)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky(1821-1881): Works
Notes from Underground(1864)
Crime and Punishment(1866)
The Brothers Karamazov(1880)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky(1821-1881) [Crime and Punishment(1866)]
Raskolnikov kills Alyona Ivanova and her sister Lizabeta, causing his friend Razumikhin, mother Pulcherina Alexandrovna and sister Dunya much distress. He is persuaded to confess due to Marmeladov’s daughter Sonya.
He orders Dunya not to marry Luzhin and witnesses Svidrigrailov’s suicide due to his lecherous attraction to Dunya in the meanwhile.
Charles Lamb(1775-1834): Intro
No interest in critical theory and poor structure, but wide sympathy and acute sensitivity.
General but perceptive comments.
Much loved where his house were a meeting point for various writers.
Charles Lamb(1775-1834): Works (four magazines, two books, poem)
Contributed to Leigh Hunt’s [Reflecter] and [Examiner]. Wrote once for [Quarterly Review] in 1814. [London Magazine] from 1820 to 1823.
[Tales from Shakespear(1807)] for children, with his sister Mary Lamb.
[Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare(1808)
“On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born(1827)” elegy
Charles Lamb(1775-1834) [Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare(1808)]: Quotes
“The style of this old play is stiff and cumbersome, like the dresses of its times. There may be flesh and blood underneath, but we cannot get at it.”
Charles Lamb(1775-1834) [Letters]: Quotes
“Burns was the god of my idolatry, as Bowles of yours. I am jealous of your fraternizing with Bowles, when I think you relish him more than Burns or my old favorite, Cowper”
“I hope by this time you are prepared to say the “Falstaff’s Letters” are a bundle of the sharpest, queerest, profoundest humors of any of these juice-drained latter times have spawned.”
