humanities 6 Flashcards
England’s first official poet laureate
wrote Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden
type of poetry included:
about nature vs city, celebration of nature, innocence and idea of childhood, writing for and about people
Romantic poetry
Type of poets: William Blake John Keats Percy Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth
Romantic
Types of odes
Pindric
Horatian
irregular or Cowleyan
Great odes of 1819 included Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightengale, Ode on Insolence and most famous Ode to a Grecian urn
John Keats
Considered the greatest ode ever written
contains the famous line “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all”
John Keats
Ode to a Grecian Urn
Chief architect of romantic poetry movement
Collab with Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
who wrote Lyrical Ballads- Lucy Poems Tintern Abbey The Solitary Reaper London 1802 I wandered lonely as a cloud The Prelude - never finished, published by wife after death
William Wordsworth
Poet who was also an illustrator and engraver, invented illuminated printing
mystic, free love advocate
William Blake
Who wrote: Songs of Innocence and Experience The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Milton: A Poem Jerusalem
William Blake
What poet wanted to create a utopian society with Robert Southey, collab with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads and was addicted to opium?
Samual Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote: Ancient Mariner Lyrical Ballads collab Kubla Khan Frost at Midnight Dejection: An Ode Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What poet was considered Romantic poetry’s most acclaimed figure, hung out with Lord Byron, was a revolutionary, opposed to religion and died at 29?
Percy Shelley
Who wrote:
0 Zymandia (Horace Smith)
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound
Percy Shelley
who was the first play wright?
Thespis - thespian
Which ancient greek playwright standardized the format, added a 2nd character, and allowed for conflict?
Aeschylus
Which ancient greek playwright added a 3rd character and scenery and did away with the trilogy format?
Sophocles
Which ancient Greek playwright was the first to add female character leads and added the concept of deux ex machina?
Euripides
what was the greek tragedy format?
prologue, scene 1, chorus, scene 2, chorus, scene 3
Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
Eumenidies
Aeschylus
Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Antigone
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Medea
Women of Troy
Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides
Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Tartuffe in 1664?
Moliere
Who wrote the dramatic farce Comedy of Errors in 1594?
Shakespeare
Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Charley’s Aunt
in 1892?
Brandon Thomas
Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy The Importance of Being Earnest?
Oscar Wilde
Which playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe and was a political activist?
Arthur Miller
Who wrote: Death of a Salesman All My Sons An Enemy of the People The Crucible The Misfits
Arthur Miller
All My Sons was first success
Wrote The Misfits for Marilyn Monroe
Death of a Salesman is most famous
Which American playwright is known for Southern Gothic, personal hardships inspired plays, and was known for symbolism and metaphor?
Tennessee Williams
Which American playwright wrote:
A Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Name Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
Which American playwright used expressionism, racism, class, was controversial, contracted malaria, TB, was an alcoholic as well as won 4 Pulitzers and a Nobel in Literature?
Eugene O’Neill
Which American playwright wrote: The Emperor Jones Anna Christie The Iceman Cometh Long Days Journey into Night
Eugene O’Neill
Which playwright wrote:
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
James Joyce
Virginia Wolfe
Samuel Beckett
William Blake
British Literature 20th century
Which British writer worked for James Joyce as a secretary, was born in Ireland, wrote in French after joining the French resistance in WWI, plays are considered a part of the “Theater of the Absurd”
Samuel Beckett
Which British writer wrote: Waiting for Godot Endgame Happy Days Which all premiered from 1950-1970
Samuel Beckett
Which British writer describes a visit to Hell as to correct common misconceptions about good and evil. The book is described as a book of writings and illustrations?
William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Which British writer employed Samuel Beckett, known for literary technique created for developing purposeful use of stream of consciousness?
James Joyce
Which British writer wrote: Finnegans Wake (a circular novel) A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (semi-autobio) Ulysses Dubliners
James Joyce
Which author compares Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus to Odysseus and Telemachus?
James Joyce
Which British author’s work can be described as experimental, was a member of the bohemian group called the Bloomsbury Group, and specifically targeted inequality in women’s access to education?
Virginia Wolfe
Which British writer wrote: Jacob's Room Orlando (wakes up a woman) A Room of One's Own (feminist essay) Mrs. Dalloway (takes place in one day)
Virginia Wolfe
Lord Byron
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Characteristics: escapism and spirituality
British and American Romanticism
Which writer had an affair with Lady Caroline Lamb and died fighting in Greece?
Lord Byron
Who wrote:
Don Juan (Byronic hero - wanderer)
Beppo (poem -satire about adultery)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Lord Byron
Which write pioneered the science fiction genre, used frame narrative - a story within a story-, remain popular to this day.
Mary Shelley
Who wrote
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Like Prometheus, there are consequences when mankind attempts to play god.
Story remains popular today because of the creatures existential crisis resonates w/ many people.
Which writer believed marriage was a business proposition, wrote about theme of women obligated to marry to gain independence, never married because she didn’t have to, and characters often hate each other and then eventually fall in love?
Jane Austen
Who wrote: Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Natty Bumppo’s was a character in what series?
The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper
Which 5 books were included in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales?
The Pioneers The Last of the Mohicans - take place in upstate NY The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer
