Lit test unit 3 Flashcards
Edmund Spenser did not advance in government service for why?
for his association with the wrong people
What launched Spenser’s career and composed of 12 pastoral poems corresponding to the 12 months?
The Shepherd’s Calendar
Established Spenser’s superiority over all English poets since Chaucer
The Shepherds Calendar
Spenser entitled his epic what?
The Faerie Queen
In 1594 Spenser presented his second bride with what?
A sonnet sequence called Amoretti. They ended with a marriage song
The Faerie Queen has been credited for teaching what?
the love of virtue and the hatred of vice
Sonnet 68
Has only 2 sentences, is an Easter prayer
Sonnet 79
stresses good advice to those considering marriage. the beauty of character
Spenser;s stated plan was to,,,
write 12 books, but only wrote 6
The faerie queen is what…
a romance and an allegory
Allegory
an extended metaphor with two levels of meaning, the literal and the symbolic
Spenserian Stanza
8 lines of iambic pentameter and 1 line of iambic hexameter, for 9 lines total
Arthur
an example of the ideal gentle man warrior
the story presents his career before he became king
Gloriana
the queen of fairyland (queen elizabeth)
Una
Represents truth and faith
travels with red cross knight
red cross knight
undertaking a mission given to him by gloriana
immature, asspiring christian capable of either success or failure and depentdant on divine grace
Error
Half woman half serpent
lives in the wandering wood
Dwarf
represnts reason
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Published posthumously
wrote the best lyric poetry of the early Tudor period
Sonnet
14 line poem written in iambic pentameter (octave, sestet)
conceits
strained and elaborate comparisons
used conciets
sir thomas wyatt
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
published posthumosly
invented blank verse
blank verse
unrymed iambic pentameter