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The Middle Ages:

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450-1485

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The Old English Period:

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450-1100

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The Middle English Period:

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1100-1485

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The Renaissance:

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1485-1688

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The Tudor Period:

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1485-1603

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The Stuart Period:

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1603-1688

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The Age of Revolution:

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1688-1832

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The Neoclassical Priod

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1688-1789

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The Romantic Period:

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1789-1832

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The Age of Reform:

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1832-Present

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The Victorian Period:

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1832-1914

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The Modern Period:

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1914-Present

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Rationalism can be defined as the _________ of _________ in all areas of ___________.

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Rule/reason/life

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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?

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By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials

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What three main beliefs of scripture did the deists reject?

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The Deity of Christ
Christ death and bodily Resurrection
Miracles of Scripture

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What is the purpose of satire?

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To upbraid and to warn.

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What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?

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Journalistic Realism

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The essays found in Addison and Steele’s “The Tatler and The Spectator” are much like our present-day _____________.

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Editorials

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What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?

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Was to vex the world rather than to entertain it

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What fundamental question does “An Essay on Man” seek to answer?

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“Why does evil exist?”

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List the reasons that the eighteenth century became a great age hymnody.

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Hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control
The neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn
Issac watts hymnody

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What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief”?

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A bee

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The line “Thither the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?

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Periphrasis

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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield Sharply disagree?

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About the Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement

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According to John Wesley’s journal, he had a grasp of ___________ and enjoyed _____________ as well as ____________ reading.

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Greek
Secular
Sacred

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Name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.

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"And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
"Soldiers of Christ, Arise"
"Behold the Man!"
"The Beatific Sight"
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?

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Diligence

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What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?

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“Journal of a tour to the Hebrides”

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What is the verse form of “The Deserted Village”?

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Heroic couplets

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According to Boswell, what trait of Johnson’s overshadows his shortcomings?

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His disdain for the Bible

Conversation…..

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What romantic elements are found in “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?

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Its description of rural landscape
Its idealization of humble life
Its use of natural description to generate a mood
Its solitary meditation

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The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical, and artistic- is _____________ from _____________.

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Freedom

Limits

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33
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Robert Burns was known as the “_________-__________-__________.”

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Heaven- taught plowman

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34
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Unitarianism evaluates an actions’ goodness or badness based on its production of what?

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Its production of happiness

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List the elements that Christians would agree with romantics on:

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Human reason has limitations (Chrisitans recognize the fall of man and its consequences while the romantics reacted against the neoclassical emphasis on reason)
Intuition has some validity (both agree with self realization- Christian measures his development according to Christ-likeness, the romantic measures his personal development according to his subjective self-evaluation.)
The individual has value

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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

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The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere

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What is ironic about Blake’s inclusion of a graveyard in his “Garden of Love”?

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garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death
Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s law will bring him only misery

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What institutions of society does William Blake’s “London” condemn?

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Religion
Government
Family

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What did Wordsworth credit as being the major formative influence on his writing?

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Nature

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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control?

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The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

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As a result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of _____________ _____________ ____________.

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Modern Literary Criticism

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How do the sailors punish the Mariner in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?

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By hanging the dead albatross around his neck

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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essay’s?

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Nostalgic daydreaming

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The Byronic hero is characterized by what?

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Remorse and repentance

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What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”?

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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

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Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in what?

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The superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature

47
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What was the purpose of “Gulliver’s Travels”?

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To vex the world rather than to entertain

48
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Keats first unquestionably great poem was:

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“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

49
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Name the three missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England and tell where they served.

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William Carey- India
Hudson Taylor- China
David Livington- Africa

50
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In “The Eve of St. Agnes”, what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

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A storm

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List the concepts true about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England.

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  • Some of Engladns finest hymns wre produced
  • Evangelicalism tempored England’s colonial efforts with Humanitarian concerns
  • Concerns for social goals wre displacing the mission of the church
  • Evangelicalism produced England’s greatest missionary effect
52
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_________ ___________ scholars had an even more devastating effect on the orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did ____________ ideas.

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German Biblical/Darwin’s

53
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List the two areas in which Thomas Carlyle had his greatest impact on Victorian England.

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Religious thought

Social Criticism

54
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What did Newman firmly oppose?

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All attempts to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools

55
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Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by what?

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The death of his best friend

56
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Who is the “Pilot” in Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”?

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The divine and unseen who is always guiding us

57
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Who was the late — Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?

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Matthew Arnold

58
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What new poetic genre did Robert Browning create?

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Dramatic monologue

59
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What most affected Christina Rossetti’s writing?

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Seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets

60
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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as ____________.

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Parodies

61
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What is Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?

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Noble rustics or contended pagans

62
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Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” reflects what aspects?

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The lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from Christianity
Hopelessness for finding a replacement for the Christian faith

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Hopkin’s “sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of what earlier type of poetry?

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Old English Poetry

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List the true statements about A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying young”.

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The youth is praised for dying
Keeps his honor even in death
Demonstrates that fame dies more quickly than beauty does

65
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In “The Kingdom of God”, Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because:

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Man’s UN redeemed nature prevents him from seeing

66
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Kipling’s “The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?

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Tract

67
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In Kipling’s story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin’s conversion?

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Overwork

68
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Who as founder of modern psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

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Sigmund Freud

69
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Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.

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Rationalism

70
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What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?

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Existentialism

71
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The typical modern poem relies on what?

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Rhythm

72
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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?

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Didacticism

73
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The moon imagery in Yeat’s “Adam’s Curse” foreshadows what?

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The disillusionment at the end of the poem

74
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Yeat’s believed that answers for life were found in what?

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Art

75
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Joyce’s “Ulysses” uses which method of development.

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Stream of consciousness

76
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In Joyce’s “Araby”, why is the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?

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His uncle was late

77
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Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois’ love for what?

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Sports

78
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What does Virginia Woolf intend the road to symbolize in “Three Pictures”?

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Life

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In Woolf’s “Three Pictures”, what is the narrator’s response to the first picture?

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Satisfaction

80
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In “Feuille D’ Album” what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?

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Eggs

81
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What does the “tall tree” symbolize in MacNeice’s “The Truisms”?

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The final maturing of the son

82
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In Katherine Mansfield’s stories, what literary element is of supreme importance?

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Atmosphere takes precedence over plot

83
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Why can’t the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave’s “Coronation Address”?

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She does not take into account her husband’s feelings toward the matriarchy

84
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Theme: Any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work

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“Adam’s Curse”

85
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Theme: Life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort

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“Three Pictures”

86
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Theme: “Tis not too late to see a newer world.”

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“Ulysses”

87
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Theme: All earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time.

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“Ozymandias”

88
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Theme: Determination in meeting the challenges of death

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“Prospoce”

89
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Theme: The loss of religion’s validity

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“Araby”

90
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Theme: The remarkable power of God

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“Wesley’s journal”

91
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Theme: The superiority of Nature to books as a moral guide

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“The Tables Turned”

92
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Theme:To “vindicate the ways of God to man”

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“Essay on Man”

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Author: “Essay on Criticism”

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Alexander Pope

94
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Author: “Coronation Address”

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Robert Graves

95
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Author: “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

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William Wordsworth

96
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Author: “Winter”

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James Thomson

97
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Author: “When I was One and Twenty”

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A.E. Housman

98
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Author: “The Deserted Village”

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Oliver Goldsmith

99
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Author: “ The Tyger”

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William Blake

100
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Author: “A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns

101
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Auhtor: Complied and edited the Dictionary of the English Language

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Samuel Johnson

102
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Author: Called “the English Chekhov”

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Katherine Mansfield

103
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Author: Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry

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Gerald Manley Hopkins

104
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Author: Took part in a romantic elopement

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Robert Browning

105
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Author: Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect

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Robert Burns

106
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Author: After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism

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John Henry Newman

107
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Author: Showed great talent, but died of tuberculosis at 26

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John Keats

108
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Author: Poet laureate

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John Dryden

109
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Author: Wrote satirical travel literature

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Jonathan Swift

110
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Theme: Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity with all of God’s creation

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Rhine of the ancient mariner

111
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Be able to write a short essay describing what you know about the history of the English language

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Old English literature reacted primarily against the external threat to society while Middle English sought to remedy the internal threat to society. During the fourteenth century the English language took on both French and Latin additions. It had many influences that shaped it into what it is in current day. Mother of languages. Original Keltic to the Old English. French became choice until Canterbury Tales. Gutenberg press old, middle, modern.

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