Short Oxford History of English Literature Flashcards
Which author was buried in 1400 at Westminster Abbey (now known as poets corner)?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is known as ‘Anglorum Poeta celeberrimus’ (‘the most famous poet of the English nation’)
John Gower
John Gower is portrayed in his tomb as laying above three of his works. Which are they?
Vox Clamantis, the Speculum Meditantis( Mirour de l’Omme) and the Confessio Amantis
Chaucer is referred to in a poem as ‘pure well head
of Poesie’ by whom?
Edmund Spencer
Whose monument pronounces the author as ‘the Prince of Poets in his Tyme’
Edmund Spencer
The Spectator (1711-12) was a newspaper founded by?
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People is by?
Bede
Which is the first monster that appears in the poem - Beowulf
Grendel - is seen as ‘Godes andsaca’, the enemy of God (1682) and as a descendant of the biblical Cain, the first murderer
What is wyrd in ‘Beowulf’ or according to the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons referred to as wyrd - the haunted by an awareness of fate, the looming sense of destiny.
What is a scop in Old English Poetry?
A scop was a poet as represented in Old English poetry. Scop is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature
The Wife’s Lament, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, Widsith, and The Ruin, has survived in the great anthology known as?
the Exeter Book
Four major poetic manuscripts of Old English poetry?
Junius manuscript, Exeter Book, Vercelli book, Beowulf
Which poem can be found on the eighth-century Ruthwell Cross?
The dream of the Rood
Who is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness?
Gawain poet (pearl poet) writes in Middle English
Chaucer dedicated his Troilus and Criseyde to whom?
John Gower (the ‘moral Gower)
Piers Plowman is authored by?
William Langland
Piers Plowman is divided into sections called?
passus (Latin for “step”).
‘Treatise on the Astrolabe’ was a prose treatise on the use of the astrolabe, written by Geogrey Chaucer to?
to instruct his little son Lewis
Name all of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works
The Book of the Duchess (an elegy for Blanche of Lancaster) Anelida and Arcite The House of Fame Parlement of Foules The Legend of Good Women Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales Treatise on the Astrolabe Chaucer translated Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris
Vox Clamantis is written in which language?
Latin
the Speculum Meditantis( Mirour de l’Omme) is written in which language?
French
Confessio Amantis is written in which language?
English
Which of John Gower’s work did Shakespeare use to write Pericles, Prince of Tyre?
Confessio Amantis
Which is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
Knight’s Tale
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey first used the blank verse in?
In his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil’s Aeneid
Who is known as “Fathers of the English Sonnet”
Henry Howard and Thomas Wyatt
Who authored Tottel’s Miscellany (1557)?
Thomas Wyatt
newfangleness is a word invented by?
Chaucer
Name the manuscript that is an album containing Wyatt’s personal selection of his poems and translations which preserves 123 texts, partly in his handwriting?
Egerton Manuscript
Who authored Utopia (1516)?
Thomas More
History of King Richard III, Responsio ad Lutherum are works by?
Thomas More
The Boke named the Governour, Defense of Good Women are authored by?
Thomas Elyot
The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is known as?
Nowell Codex
The Canterbury Tales is a story of a group of pilgrims travelling together from Southwark to the shrine of?
St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral
‘Revelations of Divine Love’ (about 1393) is believed to be the first published book written by a woman in the English language. Who authored it?
Julian of Norwich
The Arte of English Poesie (1589) was written by?
George Puttenham
The Defense of Poesy or An Apology for Poetry was written by?
Philip Sydney
Edmund Spencer had dedicated his Shepehard’d calender to whom?
Philip Sydney
Who is the author of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, The Lady of May and Astrophel and Stella
Philip Sydney
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is an example of
Pastoral romance
The peculiar style of John Lyly’s writing is called?
euphuism
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Love’s Metamorphosis and Gallathea are written by?
John Lyly
Robert Green’s ‘Greene’s Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance’ is an attack on?
Shakespeare
Who collaborated with Greene on the play A Looking Glasse for London and England in 1594?
Thomas Lodge
the first work of fiction published by an English woman writer?
Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (1621)
Who wrote the famous pastoral romance - Rosalynde?
Thomas Lodge
Walter Raleigh wrote a poetic response to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” of 1592, entitled?
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Which 20th-century poet would join the poetic “argument” between Raleigh and Marlowe with his “Raleigh Was Right”?
William Carlos Williams
Orlando Furioso was authored by?
Ludovico Ariosto
The term sarcasm is first recorded in English in which poem?
The Shepheard’s Calendar by Spencer
Name chief character or the shepherd in The Shepheard’s Calendar by Spencer
Colin Clout- a folk character originated by John Skelton - his life as a shepherd through the twelve months of the year
A stanza with the main meter as iambic pentameter and with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine), and the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc is called?
Spenserian Stanza
The First Four Books of the Civil Wars - a historical poem on the subject of the Wars of the Roses was written by?
Samuel Daniel
Who was the first to bring the term ode, for a lyrical poem, to popularity in England?
Michael Drayton
Nimphidia is authored by?
Michael Drayton
The Spanish Tragedy, Arden of Faversham are plays by?
Thomas Kyd
A Warning to Fair Women is a play by?
Thomas Heywood and Thomas Kyd
A Yorkshire Tragedy is a play by?
Thomas Middleton
A Woman Killed with Kindness, A Woman Killed with
Kindness are plays by?
Thomas Heywood
The Duchess of Malfi is a revenge play by?
John Webster
The revenge play or revenge genre was established by which play?
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Who translated Michel de Montaigne’s Essays into English?
John Florio
King James Bible was published in?
1611
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets is a book by?
Samuel Johnson
The term metaphysical poets were coined by?
Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poet
The Flea is a poem by?
John Donne
Who wrote the poem - “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, with the first line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”
Robert Herrick
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is an example of what kind of poetry?
Carpe Diem!
