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FINAL: questions Flashcards

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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 Period

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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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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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deity of Christ
Christ’s death and bodily resurrection
miracles of scripture

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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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What is the purpose of satire?

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To upbraid and to warn

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17
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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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18
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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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to vex the world rather than to entertain it.

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20
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What fundamental question does “An east 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 of 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
  • Isaac Watts’ great contributions to hymn writing influenced the growth of hymnody
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What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth against Watts’ “against idleness and mischief”?

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bee

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

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periphrasis

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over what issue did the Wesley and Whitefield sharply disagree?

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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 result of traveling with Johnson?

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“Journal of a Tour to the Herbides”

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29
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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 conversational abilities

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what romantic elements are found in “elegy written in a country churchyard”?

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  • description of a rural landscape
  • idealization of a 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 from 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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Utilitarianism evaluates an action’s 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
  • intuition has some validity
  • the individual has value
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36
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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

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  • the poet himself as the primary subject
  • a high 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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the garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death

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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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39
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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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43
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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?

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nostalgic daydreaming

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44
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The byronic hero is characterized by what?

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arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will, rebellion

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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 Gulliver’s Travels?

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to vex the world rather than to entertain it

48
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Keats first unquestionably great poem was:

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“on first looking to Chapman’s Homer”

49
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name 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 Livingston: Africa

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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 the nineteenth-century England.

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  • The periods evangelicalism produced England’s greater missionary effort.
  • Some of England’s finest hymns were produced.
  • Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns.
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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

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 and 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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Who is the “Pilot” in Tennyson’s “crossing the bar”?

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the divine and unseen who is always guiding us

56
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who was the late- Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?

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Matthew Arnold

57
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What new poetic genre did Browning create?

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dramatic monologue

58
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What most affected Christina Rosetti’s writing?

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seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets

59
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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as…

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parodies

60
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What is Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?

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noble rustics or contented pagans

61
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Thomas Hardy’s “the darkling thrush” reflects what aspects?

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the lingering pain or rejecting christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from christianity

62
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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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  • youth is praised for dying young and keeps his honor even in death
  • fame dies more quickly than beauty does
64
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In “the kingdom of God”, Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because:

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man’s redeemed nature prevents him from seeing them

65
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Kipling’s “the conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?

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tract

66
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In Kipling’s story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin’s conversion?

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overwork

67
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Who as a founder of Modern Psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

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Sigmund Freud

68
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Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.

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rationalism

69
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What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?

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existentialism

70
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The typical modern poem relies on what?

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rhythm

71
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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?

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didacticism

72
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the moon imagery in Yeat’s “adam’s curse” foreshadows what?

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disillusionment at the end of the poem

73
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Yeats believed that answers for life were found in what?

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art

74
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Joyce’s Ulysses uses which method of development?

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stream of consciousness

75
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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

76
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Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois’ love of what?

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sports

77
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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

79
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In “Feuille D’Album” what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?

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an egg

80
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what does the “tall tree” symbolize in MacNeice’s “the truisms”?

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final maturing of the son

81
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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

82
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Why can’t the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave’s “coronation address”?

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she doesn’t take into account her husband’s feelings toward the matriarchy

83
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life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort

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“three pictures”

84
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Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity of with all of God’s creation

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“the rime of the ancient mariner”

85
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“tis not too late to seek a newer world”

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“Ulysses”

86
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all earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time

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“Ozymandias”

87
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determination in meeting the challenges of death

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“prospice”

88
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the loss of a religion’s validity

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“araby”

89
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the remarkable power of God

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“wesley’s journal”

90
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The superiority of nature to books as a moral guide

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“the tables turned”

91
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to “vindicate the ways of God to man”

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“essay on man”

92
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any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work

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“Adam’s curse”

93
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“Essay on Criticism”

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Alexander Pope

94
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“Coronation Address”

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Robert Graves

95
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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

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William Wordsworth

96
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“Winter”

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James Thomson

97
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“When I Was One and Twenty”

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A.E. Housman

98
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“The Deserted Village”

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Oliver Goldsmith

99
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“The Tyger”

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William Blake

100
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“A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns

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Compiled and edited the “Dictionary of the English Language”

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Samuel Johnson

102
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Called the “English Chekhov”

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Katherine Mansfield

103
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Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry

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Gerald Manley Hopkins

104
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Took part in a romantic elopement

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Robert Browning

105
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Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect

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Robert Burns

106
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After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism

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John Henry Newman

107
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Showed great talent, but died at tuberculosis at 26

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John Keats

108
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Poet Laureate

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John Dryden

109
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Wrote satirical travel literature

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Jonathan Swift

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