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1
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England’s first official poet laureate

wrote Absalom and Achitophel

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John Dryden

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type of poetry included:

about nature vs city, celebration of nature, innocence and idea of childhood, writing for and about people

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Romantic poetry

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Type of poets: 
William Blake
John Keats
Percy Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
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Romantic

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Types of odes

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Pindric
Horatian
irregular or Cowleyan

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Great odes of 1819 included Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightengale, Ode on Insolence and most famous Ode to a Grecian urn

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John Keats

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Considered the greatest ode ever written

contains the famous line “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all”

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John Keats

Ode to a Grecian Urn

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Chief architect of romantic poetry movement

Collab with Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads

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William Wordsworth

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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
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William Wordsworth

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Poet who was also an illustrator and engraver, invented illuminated printing
mystic, free love advocate

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William Blake

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Who wrote:
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Milton: A Poem
Jerusalem
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William Blake

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What poet wanted to create a utopian society with Robert Southey, collab with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads and was addicted to opium?

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Samual Taylor Coleridge

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Who wrote: 
Ancient Mariner
Lyrical Ballads collab
Kubla Khan
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
Christabel
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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?

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Percy Shelley

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Who wrote:
0 Zymandia (Horace Smith)
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound

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Percy Shelley

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who was the first play wright?

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Thespis - thespian

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Which ancient greek playwright standardized the format, added a 2nd character, and allowed for conflict?

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Aeschylus

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Which ancient greek playwright added a 3rd character and scenery and did away with the trilogy format?

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Sophocles

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Which ancient Greek playwright was the first to add female character leads and added the concept of deux ex machina?

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Euripides

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what was the greek tragedy format?

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prologue, scene 1, chorus, scene 2, chorus, scene 3

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Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
Eumenidies

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Aeschylus

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Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Antigone
Oedipus the King

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Sophocles

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Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Medea
Women of Troy
Iphigenia in Tauris

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Euripides

23
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Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Tartuffe in 1664?

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Moliere

24
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Who wrote the dramatic farce Comedy of Errors in 1594?

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Shakespeare

25
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Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Charley’s Aunt

in 1892?

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Brandon Thomas

26
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Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy The Importance of Being Earnest?

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Oscar Wilde

27
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Which playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe and was a political activist?

A

Arthur Miller

28
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Who wrote: 
Death of a Salesman
All My Sons
An Enemy of the People
The Crucible
The Misfits
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Arthur Miller
All My Sons was first success
Wrote The Misfits for Marilyn Monroe
Death of a Salesman is most famous

29
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Which American playwright is known for Southern Gothic, personal hardships inspired plays, and was known for symbolism and metaphor?

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Tennessee Williams

30
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Which American playwright wrote:
A Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Name Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Tennessee Williams

31
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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?

A

Eugene O’Neill

32
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Which American playwright wrote: 
The Emperor Jones
Anna Christie
The Iceman Cometh
Long Days Journey into Night
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Eugene O’Neill

33
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Which playwright wrote:
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage and Her Children

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Bertolt Brecht

34
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James Joyce
Virginia Wolfe
Samuel Beckett
William Blake

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British Literature 20th century

35
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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”

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Samuel Beckett

36
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Which British writer wrote:
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Happy Days
Which all premiered from 1950-1970
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Samuel Beckett

37
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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?

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William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

38
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Which British writer employed Samuel Beckett, known for literary technique created for developing purposeful use of stream of consciousness?

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James Joyce

39
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Which British writer wrote:
Finnegans Wake (a circular novel)
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (semi-autobio)
Ulysses
Dubliners
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James Joyce

40
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Which author compares Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus to Odysseus and Telemachus?

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James Joyce

41
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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?

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Virginia Wolfe

42
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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)
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Virginia Wolfe

43
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Lord Byron
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Characteristics: escapism and spirituality

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British and American Romanticism

44
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Which writer had an affair with Lady Caroline Lamb and died fighting in Greece?

A

Lord Byron

45
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Who wrote:
Don Juan (Byronic hero - wanderer)
Beppo (poem -satire about adultery)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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Lord Byron

46
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Which write pioneered the science fiction genre, used frame narrative - a story within a story-, remain popular to this day.

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Mary Shelley

47
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Who wrote

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

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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.

48
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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?

A

Jane Austen

49
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Who wrote:
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
A

Jane Austen

50
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Natty Bumppo’s was a character in what series?

A

The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper

51
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Which 5 books were included in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales?

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The Pioneers
The Last of the Mohicans - take place in upstate NY
The Prairie
The Pathfinder
The Deerslayer

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