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
