english final Flashcards
Beowulf
Anonymous
Middle Ages
Bisclavret
Marie de France
Middle Ages
Christin’es Reaction to Jean de Mentreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose
Christine de Pizan
Middle Ages
The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan
Middle Ages
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Middle Ages
The House of Fame
Geoffrey Chaucer
Middle Ages
Piers Plowman
William Langland
Middle Ages
The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe
Middle Ages
Morte d’Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory
Middle Ages
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
Renaissance
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Ralegh
Renaissance
Verses Exchanged between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh
Elizabeth I/Sir Walter Ralegh
Renaissance
The Faerie Queene
Sir Edmund Spenser
Renaissance
The Defense of Poesy
Sir Philip Sidney
Renaissance
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Renaissance
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Renaissance
The Flea
John Donne
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Canonization
John Donne
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Ecstasy
John Donne
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Altar
George Herbert
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Collar
George Herbert
Early-Seventeenth Century
To Penhurst
Ben Johnson
Early-Seventeenth Century
To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Early-Seventeenth Century
Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick
Early-Seventeenth Century
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick
Early-Seventeenth Century
To his Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
Early-Seventeenth Century
Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women
Aemilia Lanyer
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Description of Cookham
Aemilia Lanyer
Early-Seventeenth Century
A Married State
Katherine Phillips
Early-Seventeenth Century
Friendship’s Mystery, to My dearest Lucasia
Katherine Phillips
Early-Seventeenth Century
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Early-Seventeenth Century
The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish
Early-Seventeenth Century
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Early-Seventeenth Century
Caesura
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
Alliteration
same letter or sound at beginning of lines
Dream Vision
generally involves allegory, dreams relate to the truth in disguised form
Estates Satire
angry at those who abuse ecclesiastical authority and wealthy, pitiless laity
Mystery Play
based on biblical stories
Meter
generally the sound pattern of a poem, eg. Iambic pentameter or 5 stressed/5 unstressed syllables
End stopping
the placement of a complete syntactic unit within a complete poetic line
Can include phrases broken off by commas
Enjambment
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
Stanza
groupings of two or more lines of poetry, usually at least 4 lines, often joined by a rhyme scheme
Sonnet
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
English Sonnet
three four-lined stanzas (ABAB CDCD EFEF) and a couplet (GG)
Petrarchan Sonnet
eight-line stanza, often broken in two four-line stanzas typically rhyming (ABBA ABBA) and an six-line stanza typically rhyming (CDCDCD or CDECDE)
Pastoral
class of literature that presents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life
Masque
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.
Invocation
poets @ beginning of long epic poem will invoke muses to help them w their task
Metaphysical Poetry
group of poets including Donne, Metaphysics: way of abstract thinking looking for the root of human existence, philosophy, interested in complex notions of being
Emblem Poetry
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.
Country-House Poem
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
Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Anchoress
withdraws from society, Julian of Norwich
Courtly Love
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.
Breton Storyteller
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
Lollardy
14th + 15th century, Movement critiquing “aristocratic” clerics
pre-Protestant Christian religious movement
The Reformation
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
Courtier
a person who attends a royal court as a companion or adviser to the king or queen
The Great Chain of Being
Hierarchy, important for consolidating royal + class hierarchy hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought in medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God
English Revolution/civil wars
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
Oliver Cromwell
Lord protector
Cavalier
Royalist sympathizers
