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Caedmon’s Hymn

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Unknown, Latin translation by Bede in 680 in The Ecclesiastical History of English People i
♣ A monk who could not sing bails out of a party early because everyone is taking turns singing and he doesn’t want to embarrass himself. He falls asleep in a cattle shed and dreams of an angel who asks him to sing about creation. Afterwards he shared his talents and writes many songs about creation, heaven and the origins of humanity as well as songs about the coming judgement and the terrible punishments of hell.

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Bede

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First English poem

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The Dream of the Rood

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10th Century, author unknown
♣ divided into three parts: the Dreamer’s initial reaction to his vision of the Cross, the monologue of the Rood describing the Crucifixion, and the Dreamer’s conversion and resolution to seek the salvation of the Cross

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The Wanderer

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Author unknown
c. 975
o Hardships in life, lonely with no one to share thoughts with
o Exiled due to his Lord’s death
♣ Lord could literally be God, and maybe he lost his belief emotionally and spiritually exiled himself, causing his loneliness and cold surroundings
o Imagines better times and memories

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Beowulf

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c. 788

preserved in only a single manuscript

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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

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12 books each, one about war, one about going home

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Vergil’s Aeneid

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12 books, going home and then going to war

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To His Scribe Adam

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Chaucer
14th Century
letter to his scribe

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Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer

1478

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General Prologue

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Chaucer
1478
Introduction of all the characters in Canterbury tales
Chaucer the Pilgrim is the narrator
Takes place in April to go to Canterbury and thank a saint who helped them when they were sick

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Prioress

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makes a point to talk about her body

impressed by her education and demeanor

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Monk

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Extremely handsome, but didn’t follow the rules that monks were supposed to

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Pardoner

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conned people into buying indulgences

proves that you can’t trust what the speaker is saying

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Chaucer pilgrim vs. Chaucer poet

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even though the poet is the narrator, they are different

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Prologue

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Marie de France
12th century
The 3 matters

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The Three Matters

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England - Arthur
France - Charlemagne
Rome - epics

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Lanval

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Marie de France
12th century
Knight at Arthur’s table who met the lady in the forest and couldn’t talk about her, wife makes a move on Lanval and he says he’s with the lady, wife tattles and almost dies but the lady saves him and blah blah blah

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Gawain and the Green Knight

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Author unknown

late 14th century

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Wyatt, Surrey

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metaphor is a tool for thought

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Petrarch sonnet 140

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similar to Wyatt but more straight foward, “die loving well”

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Sydney

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Sonnet 1 and An Apology for Poetry

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An Apology for Poetry

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1595
In response to Gossun
attacks philosophy and literature, as they fail to recognize imagination
as soon as historians start explaining reasoning, they are writing poetry
poetry is used “as an art of imitation” in order to teach and delight

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Shakespeare Sonnet 18

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Draws attention to his act of composition more than the actual girl
“look how I’m writing about you”
eternalizes her, keeps her timeless
demonstrates his power as a poet

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why didn’t plays have authors name on cover?

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because the playwrights had no status

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Shakespeare Sonnet 20
enjambment | formally innovative
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Utopia
``` More, 1516 set in Belgium a perfect place for us, an ideal society that is just a concept More: the ambassador Hythlodaeus: skilled orator Peter Gilles: friend of More ```
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Conversations under trees in gardens
philosophical
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What can philosophy do
teach you the straight truth, but you can't just teach it directly since "do this bc it's better" isn;t a good way to teach, it has to be taught indirectly
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3 Philosophies
politics, ethics, economics
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Utopia and its people
simple and not materialistic, even though this leads to lack of individuality enjoy gardening which is very Eden/biblical like, little real world concerns not much freedom due to all of the laws that they all obey
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Faerie Queene
Spenser 1590 each knight was virtue, Book 1 = Holyness Purpose of book: to teach you how to be a better person. You don't already have to be a noble person, you can be fashioned into one
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John Smith
renaissance soldier was selected to serve as a council member and supply officer. After voyaging in Virginia, his team was murdered and Smith was ordered to be executed by the Powhatan tribe.  Smith was supposed to be executed but was saved by Pocahontas, a daughter of the Powhatan tribe. The tribe killed the other colonist in an attempt to stop encroachment of English settlers.  Smith is generally unpopular.
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Useable past
something that makes what you're trying to convey look good
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Civic myth
compelling stories about a society that generates conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself
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Eurocentrism
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world
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Metaphysical poetry
poetry like John Donne's topics of interest: love, religion, morality unusual comparisons with similes and metaphors, strong lines
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Metaphysical poets
John Donne George Herbert Marvell
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Res & Verba
subject matter and style
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The Canonization
the poem's speaker wanting to be left alone. He addresses some unnamed person and demands that he (or she) shut their big yapper and leave him in peace—to love.
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To His Coy Mistress
Marvell carpe diem poem if he had all the time in the world, he'd praise her, but he doesn't time slowed down
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Easter Wings
Herbert has technopaignion balances Christ's saving of all and Herbert's personal story
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A Song for St. Cecelia's Day, 1687
Dryden an occasional ode remarkable use of structure chaos of pre-creation is represented in first 8 lines bc of no rhyming/mixed syllables
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Paradise Lost Book 1
Satan awakes in Hell, with other fallen angels, becomes their leader and goes to a meeting he's holding
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Paradise Lost Book 2
Satan speaks to the Council about battling Heaven, some of the fallen are for it and some are against it. Satan decides to make life difficult for the new race God is creating, and decides to head to the new land. He meets his children, Sin and Death, who are guarding the gates of Hell and is directed by Chaos when he passes
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Paradise Lost Book 3
God watches Satan fly towards the new world, as his Son sits next to him. His son praises him for the grace of manifestation of man, but God says that grace can't be given without a sacrifice. The Son offers himself as a sacrifice and his Father accepts, who tells all angels to adore him. He then sends Ariel to the new land
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Paradise Lost Book 4
Satan lands in Eden, and catches his first sight of Adam and Eve and learns that they are not allowed to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Uriel and Gabriel are warned that an evil spirit is there and find Satan whispering in the ear of Eve while she sleeps. He unhappily answers questions and flies away after seeing a sign from Heaven Eve sees her reflection for the first time
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Paradise Lost Book 5
Eve tells Adam about her dream, and he comforts her. They start their day labors and are soon joined by Raphael who was sent to tell Adam of Satan and his revolt in Heaven
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Paradise Lost Book 6
Description of the battle in Heaven
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Paradise Lost Book 7
Adam asks how the new world was created, which is similar to Genesis
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Paradise Lost Book 9
Satan comes back to Eden in the form of a snake, finds Eve alone and convinces her to go to the tree with him and eat some of the fruit. Adam sees that she is "lost" and revolves to perish with her and eats the fruit. They seek to cover their nakedness and begin accusing each other
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Paradise Lost Book 10
God knows that Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree, and that the angels failed to stop him from entering. He forgives the angels and goes to talk to Adam. He forgives them but punishes them, saying women will give birth in pain and submit to their husbands. Satan returns to Hell and Sin and Death congratulate him on his victory. However, his followers are less happy as they have all been turned into snakes. Sin and Death arrive in the new world. Discord follows, causing war. Adam and Eve fight, but Adam eventually calms down and says that they need to stick together and ask for forgiveness from God
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Paradise Lost Book 11
God forgives them but tells them they have to live mortal lives outside of Eden, they will be reunited after death if they lead good lives
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Paradise Lost Book 12
the flood
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Natural Rhyme
the natural rhythm of a language
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Meter
poetic rthythm
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Scansion
art of analyzing a poem's meter
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3 uses of meter and scansion
1. meter makes words memorable by giving it architecture 2. meter creates tone 3. meter creates meaning through variation on norm and expectation
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Ictus
actual speech stress | real rhythm of poem
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Circles as structural principles in Donne's time
all things from eternity are of like forms and come around in a circle
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Paradise Lost first page of poem in 1667
enjambment 26 first line sentence similar to Genesis Shepherd is Moses
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Heroic couplets is in
Paradise Lost
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Survey
act of viewing, examining in detail for a specific purpose
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Literature
branch of study, knowledge acquired from reading or studying books
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fiction
act of fashioning or imitating
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poetry
the imaginative or creative literature in general
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Anthology
any published collection of writings by various authors
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788-1688
Beowulf - start of the enlightenment
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410-1485
the English Middle Ages
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1485-1660
The Early Modern Period - Reaissance
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1660-1688
Restoration of Monarchy
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Genres
category of literature
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Hymn
religious poem or song
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Epic
heroic poem
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Frame tale
a story within a story
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Tale collection
made up of frame tales
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Romance
literature written in one's native language
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Sonnet
14 line poem, often a turn in the poem that indicates an important message
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Horatian Ode
a poem with meter and rhyme, devoted to praising a person, animal, or object while also critiquing it
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Pindaric ode
repeated stanzas without changing form, poem of praise
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Technopaignion
pattern poem, a poem that is printed in a shape to reflect the subject of the poem
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Old English alternative
Beowulf, Caedmon's Hymn
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Accentual-syllabic
Canterbury Tales
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Caedmon's Hymn language
Latin paraphrase of Old English
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Beowulf language
Old English
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Canterbury Tales language
Middle English, London dialect
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Gawain language
Middle English, Northern Dialect
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Lias language
French
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Bede's Ecclesiatical History
Latin
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Two types of Old English Script
Latin and Futhork
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Scop
Old English poet
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Textual gloss
annotations in margins
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Tenor and vehicle
tenor refers to concept, vehicle refers to the image that is the comparison
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Ciceronian rhetoric
inventio (invent), dispositio (arrangement), elocutio (style), memoria (memory), actio (delivery)
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3 types of speech
Forensic (teach/Plain) Epideictic (entertain/Middle) Deliberative (persuade/Grand)
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Three types of persuasion
ethos (character - to inform) logos (argument - to win) pathos (emotion of audience - to move)
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Humanist Renaissance
``` ad fontes (to the sources) focuses on the individual ```
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Reformation Movement
sola scriptura and sola fides | scriptures alone and faith alone
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Copia
long sentences
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Allegory
a story, poem, or picture with an interpreted hidden meaning
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3 types of sonnet form
Petrarchan/Italian Shakespearean/English Spenserian
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Two types of ode
Horatian | Pindaric
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Enjambment
continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, stanza
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double syntax
occurs when enjambment happens, grammatical sentence flows over the line endings of a poem
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Printing press year
1450s, St. Paul's Church
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First Shakespearean play printed
Titus Andronicus | 1594
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Oldest book types
1. Clay tablet, Cuniform 2. Wax paper 3. Papyrus 4. Parchment 5. Paper (china)
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3 types of manuscripts used
Rotuna Humanistic Script Italic
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Did compositors make errors?
yes, changed meaning of poem
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first folio
1623
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Alexandrian Line
12 syllables

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