Individuals Flashcards
Sophocles
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.
Aristotle
An Ancient Greek philosopher famous for many things; wrote The Poetics
Thespis
chorus member who became the first actor
Homer
An Ancient Greek blind poet who wrote The Odyssey and The Iliad
Laura Kasischke
wrote Miss Weariness
Elizabeth Bishop
wrote The Riverman
Juan Felipe Herrera
wrote Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings
Rainer Maria Rilke
wrote Archaic Torso of Apollo
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
came up with Hegelian dialectic, a concept of taking two opposing views and removing the conflict between them by combining them
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
What poem did Lord Alfred Tennyson write?
Ulysses
A. E. Housman
English poet; wrote “Fragment of a Greek Tragedy”, a parody of Greek tragedies
Walt Whitman
wrote “Song of Myself”, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” and “Leaves of Grass”.
He was the first person to write in free verse.
Robert Fagles
translator of our copy of Antigone
Emily Wilson
translator of our copy of The Odyssey
William Wordsworth
poet who wrote Tintern Abbey and My Heart Leaps Up
Thomas Wyatt
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.
Michael Drayton
poet who wrote Idea 61
Edmund Spenser
english poet who wrote Amoretti 23 and The Fairy Queen. He invented the Spenserian sonnet, first used in The Fairy Queen.
Lady Mary Wroth
poet who wrote Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 21. She was the niece of Philip Sydney
Philip Sydney
Uncle of Mary Wroth; wrote Astrophil and Stella.
George Herbert
poet who wrote “Sin (I)”. He was a priest and his works were published after his death.
John Milton
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
Catallus
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”
King Henry VIII
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.
Queen Elizabeth I
daughter of Henry VIII. Poems written during her reign were described as Elizabethan.
Petrarch
an Italian poet considered the father of the Italian sonnet, so much so that an alternative name of them is “Petrarchan sonnet”
Aeschylus
introduced the 2nd actor; organized plays into trilogies (3 tragedies and 1 satyr play)
Euripides
The first Greek playwright to explore the human mind in his plays
Cicero
Had a high political position; a highly educated slave named Tiro, whom he loved very much
Shakespeare
most famous poet and playwright in the English language; wrote Hamlet
Wanda Coleman
wrote “American Sonnet 35”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Henry James
author of Daisy Miller
William Butler Yeats
Wrote “Adam’s curse” and “No Second Troy”. One of the major poets in Modernism.
T.S. Eliot
Wrote “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The most influential poet of the 20th century and modernism.
