Literature Unit 4 Flashcards
Time for the Puritan age
1625 - 1660
King during the puritan age
Charles I
what did Puritan poets write about?
Poems about pure and holy lives.
What did Cavalier poets write about?
Light hearted poems
what did Metaphysical poets write about?
Poems about the mind, soul, and eternity.
The second greatest author of English language
John Milton
Greatest prose writer or the age
John Bunyan
“The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet”
George Wither
“Shall i wasting in despair
Die because a woman’s fair?”
“The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet”
Greatest epic of the puritan age
Paradise lost
Cavalier poet who wrote nearly 1,300 poems, and used the “seize the day” theme.
Robert Herrick
Poems Robert Herrick wrote.
To the Virgins, Make Much of Time
Delight in Disorder
His Prayer for Absolution
To God, on His Sickness
No Coming to God without Christ
“The constant lover”
Sir John Suckling
poem that’s irony is in loving someone for 3 days.
The constant lover
One of the most popular lyricist poets of his time
Edmund Waller
A complete thought that is expressed in two rhyming lines.
Couplet
“Go, Lovely Rose!”
Edmund Waller
“To Althea, From Prison” “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”
Richard Lovelace
“I have lov’d
Three whole days together;
And am like to love three more,
If it proved fair weather.”
The Constant Lover
Greatest allegory in the english language
Pilgrims progress
The first and greatest of the metaphysical poets
John Donne
“For thee, thou needst no such deceit,
For thou thy self art thine own bait”
The Bait
“The anniversary”
John Donne
“When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves removed.”
The anniversary
