English writers

Question 1

Old English epic poem, anonymous author

Answer 1

Beowulf

Question 2

Old English poem, Bede; sung in honor of God the Creator

Answer 2

Caedmon’s Hymn

Question 3

Sir Thomas Malory, Middle English prose about King Arthur, et al.

Answer 3

Le Morte d’Arthur

Question 4

15th c. morality play re: Christian salvation

Answer 4

Everyman

Question 5

mid-13th c. English round/rota; lyric poetry

Answer 5

The Cuckoo Song/Summer Canon

Question 6

Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christopher Marlowe, one of first popular stage successes

Answer 6

Tamburlaine the Great

Question 7

Renaissance (Elizabethan), Thomas Kyd, revenge play, hugely popular & influential in its time; blank verse

Answer 7

The Spanish Tragedy

Question 8

Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christoper Marlowe, based on German stories about Faust

Answer 8

Dr. Faustus

Question 9

Renaissance (Elizabethan), Christopher Marlowe, about Jewish merchant named Barabas on Malta

Answer 9

The Jew of Malta

Question 10

metaphysical poet, Renaissance (Jacobean)

Answer 10

John Donne

Question 11

Death’s Duel sermon

Answer 11

John Donne

Question 12

Renaissance (Jacobean), empiricism, scientific & religious works

Answer 12

Francis Bacon

Question 13

Ben Johnson (Jacobean), satirical drama, elements of city comedy and beast fable

Answer 13

Volpone/The Fox

Question 14

when was: John Milton, Paradise Lost

Answer 14

Renaissance (Caroline Age)

Question 15

George Herbert, metaphysical, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

Answer 15

“The Temple,” “Easter Wings”

Question 16

Robert Herrick, cavalier poets, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

Answer 16

Hesperides (includes carpe diem poem: “To Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Question 17

Thomas Carew, cavalier poets, Renaissance (Caroline Age)

Answer 17

“An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”

Question 18

Thomas Hobbs, Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), treatise arguing for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign

Answer 18

Leviathan

Question 19

John Milton, Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), defense of the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign

Answer 19

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Question 20

Renaissance (Commonwealth Period), John Hutchinson (fought in parliamentary army in the English Civil War)

Answer 20

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Question 21

1672, John Dryden, “heroic drama,” two-part tragedy (stage play)

Answer 21

The Conquest of Granada

Question 22

1712, Alexander Pope, mock-heroic narrative poem

Answer 22

The Rape of the Lock

Question 23

1678, John Bunyan, theological fiction, possibly first English novel

Answer 23

Pilgrim’s Progress

Question 24

1689, John Locke, political philosophy attacking patriarchalism and outlines Locke’s ideas for a society based on natural rights and contract theory

Answer 24

Two Treatises of Government

Question 25

1820, John Keats, narrative poems

Answer 25

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes

Question 26

1819 John Keats, odes

Answer 26

on a Grecian Urn, to a Nightingale

Question 27

~1790, Robert Burns, narrative poem, part in Scots and part in English

Answer 27

"Tam o' Shanter"

Question 28

1788, Robert Burns, song written in Scots to tune of a folk song

Answer 28

"Auld Lang Syne"

Question 29

1820s, Lord Byron, satirical epic poem

Answer 29

Don Juan

Question 30

1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist philosophy

Answer 30

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Question 31

1793, William Wordsworth, romantic poem, "loco-descriptive"

Answer 31

Tintern Abbey (in Lyrical Ballads, with Coleridge)

Question 32

1798, Samuel Coleridge, narrative poem w/ personification & repetition (about a sailor)

Answer 32

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (in Lyrical Ballads, with Wordsworth)

Question 33

1797, Samuel Coleridge, romantic poetry (about Xanadu)

Answer 33

Kubla Khan

Question 34

Lord Byron poetry

Answer 34

"She Walks in Beauty" and "When We Two Have Parted"

Question 35

Alfred Tennyson, 1800s, poetry

Answer 35

Timbuktu, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses