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Beowulf

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Anonymous

Middle Ages

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Bisclavret

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Marie de France

Middle Ages

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Christin’es Reaction to Jean de Mentreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose

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Christine de Pizan

Middle Ages

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The Book of the City of Ladies

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Christine de Pizan

Middle Ages

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The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Middle Ages

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The House of Fame

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Middle Ages

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Piers Plowman

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William Langland

Middle Ages

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The Book of Margery Kempe

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Margery Kempe

Middle Ages

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Morte d’Arthur

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Sir Thomas Malory

Middle Ages

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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Christopher Marlowe

Renaissance

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The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

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Sir Walter Ralegh

Renaissance

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Verses Exchanged between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh

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Elizabeth I/Sir Walter Ralegh

Renaissance

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The Faerie Queene

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Sir Edmund Spenser

Renaissance

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The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney

Renaissance

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Doctor Faustus

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Christopher Marlowe

Renaissance

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The Tempest

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William Shakespeare

Renaissance

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The Flea

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John Donne

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Canonization

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John Donne

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Ecstasy

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John Donne

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Altar

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George Herbert

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Collar

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George Herbert

Early-Seventeenth Century

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To Penhurst

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Ben Johnson

Early-Seventeenth Century

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To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare

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Ben Johnson

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Delight in Disorder

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Robert Herrick

Early-Seventeenth Century

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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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Robert Herrick

Early-Seventeenth Century

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To his Coy Mistress

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Andrew Marvell

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women

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Aemilia Lanyer

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Description of Cookham

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Aemilia Lanyer

Early-Seventeenth Century

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A Married State

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Katherine Phillips

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Friendship’s Mystery, to My dearest Lucasia

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Katherine Phillips

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes

Early-Seventeenth Century

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The Blazing World

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Margaret Cavendish

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Paradise Lost

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John Milton

Early-Seventeenth Century

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Caesura

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caesura is a pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter. A caesura will usually occur in the middle of a line of poetry but can occur at the beginning or the end of a line
Can be punctuation

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Alliteration

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same letter or sound at beginning of lines

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Dream Vision

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generally involves allegory, dreams relate to the truth in disguised form

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Estates Satire

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angry at those who abuse ecclesiastical authority and wealthy, pitiless laity

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Mystery Play

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based on biblical stories

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Meter

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generally the sound pattern of a poem, eg. Iambic pentameter or 5 stressed/5 unstressed syllables

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End stopping

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the placement of a complete syntactic unit within a complete poetic line
Can include phrases broken off by commas

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Enjambment

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end-stopping’s opposite, when the syntactic unit pours over in the next line; do not pause at the lines end, but try to keep meter

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Stanza

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groupings of two or more lines of poetry, usually at least 4 lines, often joined by a rhyme scheme

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Sonnet

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verse form that combines variable schemes of rhymed lines to produce a 14-line poem; usually contains a “Conceit” or a sustained metaphor, and its end may urn on a “volta” or a change in tone or notion

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English Sonnet

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three four-lined stanzas (ABAB CDCD EFEF) and a couplet (GG)

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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eight-line stanza, often broken in two four-line stanzas typically rhyming (ABBA ABBA) and an six-line stanza typically rhyming (CDCDCD or CDECDE)

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Pastoral

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class of literature that presents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life

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Masque

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Masque, form of dramatic writing and production featuring poetry, music, and dance, popular in 17th-century England, especially in court circles. In the masque, the actors wore masks and usually represented allegorical or mythical characters.

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Invocation

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poets @ beginning of long epic poem will invoke muses to help them w their task

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Metaphysical Poetry

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group of poets including Donne, Metaphysics: way of abstract thinking looking for the root of human existence, philosophy, interested in complex notions of being

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Emblem Poetry

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Emblems were a popular sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art form which combined a picture, a motto (usually in Latin), and an explanatory poem. They depicted a universal moral truth in allegorical form.

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Country-House Poem

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a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. Such poems were popular in early 17th century England

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Anchoress

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withdraws from society, Julian of Norwich

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Courtly Love

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a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated.

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Breton Storyteller

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Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-world Celtic motifs
Marie de France, Bisclavret

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Lollardy

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14th + 15th century, Movement critiquing “aristocratic” clerics
pre-Protestant Christian religious movement

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The Reformation

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Martin Luther (1534): Act of Supremacy
Removing the power of the clergy and increasing the power of the crown
Post-Lollardy: descripturing, interest in vernacularization the scripture to make it more available to the people
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Courtier

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a person who attends a royal court as a companion or adviser to the king or queen

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The Great Chain of Being

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Hierarchy, important for consolidating royal + class hierarchy
hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought in medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God
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English Revolution/civil wars

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a period of armed conflict and political turmoil between 1642 and 1660 which pitted supporters of Parliament against the Crown, the trial and execution of Charles I, the replacement of the monarchy with the Commonwealth of England
Trial and execution of Charles 1
Oliver Cromwell
Lord Protector 1653-1658

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Oliver Cromwell

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Lord protector

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Cavalier

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Royalist sympathizers

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