Individuals

Question 1

Sophocles

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famous Greek playwright who wrote Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. He wrote over a hundred plays, but we only have 7. He also introduced the notion of a third actor in plays.

Question 2

Aristotle

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An Ancient Greek philosopher famous for many things; wrote The Poetics

Question 3

Thespis

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chorus member who became the first actor

Question 4

Homer

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An Ancient Greek blind poet who wrote The Odyssey and The Iliad

Question 5

Laura Kasischke

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wrote Miss Weariness

Question 6

Elizabeth Bishop

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wrote The Riverman

Question 7

Juan Felipe Herrera

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wrote Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings

Question 8

Rainer Maria Rilke

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wrote Archaic Torso of Apollo

Question 9

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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came up with Hegelian dialectic, a concept of taking two opposing views and removing the conflict between them by combining them

Question 10

Friedrich Nietzsche

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an 18-century German philosopher; came up with the idea that Greek tragedy springs up from the attempted reconciliation between Apollonian and Dionysian aspects of artistic expression in his book The Birth of a Tragedy.

Question 11

What poem did Lord Alfred Tennyson write?

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Ulysses

Question 12

A. E. Housman

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English poet; wrote “Fragment of a Greek Tragedy”, a parody of Greek tragedies

Question 13

Walt Whitman

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wrote “Song of Myself”, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” and “Leaves of Grass”.

He was the first person to write in free verse.

Question 14

Robert Fagles

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translator of our copy of Antigone

Question 15

Emily Wilson

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translator of our copy of The Odyssey

Question 16

William Wordsworth

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poet who wrote Tintern Abbey and My Heart Leaps Up

Question 17

Thomas Wyatt

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courtier of Henry VIII and English poet who wrote “[Whoso list to hunt]”. He was arrested under accusations of sleeping with Anne Boleyn. He popularized the use of the Italian sonnet in England.

Question 18

Michael Drayton

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poet who wrote Idea 61

Question 19

Edmund Spenser

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english poet who wrote Amoretti 23 and The Fairy Queen. He invented the Spenserian sonnet, first used in The Fairy Queen.

Question 20

Lady Mary Wroth

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poet who wrote Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 21. She was the niece of Philip Sydney

Question 21

Philip Sydney

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Uncle of Mary Wroth; wrote Astrophil and Stella.

Question 22

George Herbert

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poet who wrote “Sin (I)”. He was a priest and his works were published after his death.

Question 23

John Milton

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famous poet who wrote Paradise Lost, a famous epic poem and wrote “Sonnet 12”. He wrote political pamphlets for the English Civil war. In the 1640s, he questioned the present laws surrounding divorce, arguing that marriage was a union of minds rather than bodies. This caused him to face a lot of hate, which he responded to in “Sonnet 12”.

His most prominent prose work was called Areopagitica

Question 24

Catallus

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Latin poet who wrote lyric poetry on the ambiguity of emotion, the blurred line between love and hate, etc.

Some of his poems are famous for being obscene

Famous quote from his most famous work: “I hate and I love”

Question 25

King Henry VIII

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King of England who caused England to become Protestant because he wanted to divorce his first (of six) wife. He was a kinda unpredictable man, so working in his court was a precarious position.

Question 26

Queen Elizabeth I

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daughter of Henry VIII. Poems written during her reign were described as Elizabethan.

Question 27

Petrarch

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an Italian poet considered the father of the Italian sonnet, so much so that an alternative name of them is “Petrarchan sonnet”

Question 28

Aeschylus

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introduced the 2nd actor; organized plays into trilogies (3 tragedies and 1 satyr play)

Question 29

Euripides

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The first Greek playwright to explore the human mind in his plays

Question 30

Cicero

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Had a high political position; a highly educated slave named Tiro, whom he loved very much

Question 31

Shakespeare

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most famous poet and playwright in the English language; wrote Hamlet

Question 32

Wanda Coleman

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wrote “American Sonnet 35”

Question 33

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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made the model comparing drama, lyric poetry, and epic/narrative poetry

Drama: the most objective form of poetry
Lyric Poetry: the most subjective form of poetry
Epic/Narrative Poetry: subjective and objective form of poetry

Question 34

Henry James

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author of Daisy Miller

Question 35

William Butler Yeats

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Wrote “Adam’s curse” and “No Second Troy”. One of the major poets in Modernism.

Question 36

T.S. Eliot

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Wrote “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The most influential poet of the 20th century and modernism.