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Test 2 Flashcards

1
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Who was in the English Civil War?

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Puritan “Roundheads” vs. Royalist “Cavaliers”

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What was “the Restoration”?

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Charles II comes back to the throne (1660)

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What was the Puritan’s worldview?

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focused on their interpretation of what the Bible said

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What types of literature were dominant with the Puritans?

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sermons, religious, and political topics

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What type of style was Puritan literature?

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plain, unadorned

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What were the types of poetry of the Puritans?

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metaphysical and cavalier

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What is metaphysical poetry?

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  • terse, disconnected style
  • followers of John Donne
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What is cavalier poetry?

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  • relaxed, fluent conversational style
  • followers of Ben Johnson
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Who was the founder of metaphysical school of poetry?

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John Donne

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What are characteristics of metaphysical poetry?

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  • contains irregular, “unpoetic” rythme and syntax
  • uses far-fetched comparisons (similes or metaphors)
  • extends comparison to a great length to describe emotion, idea, or situation
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What is “Sonnet 10”?

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an apostrophe (talking to an inanimate object as if it was alive)

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12
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Who wrote “Holy Sonnet 10”?

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Johne Donne

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Who was known as one of the finest writers of devotional poetry in the English language?

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George Herbert

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Who wrote “The Pulley”?

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George Herbert

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15
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In “The Pulley”, what did God withhold from man?

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rest

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16
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Who wrote “Paradise Lost”?

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John Milton

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17
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What is the greatest epic Christian poem?

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“Paradise Lost”

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Who wrote “On His Blindness” and “On His Deceased Wife”?

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John Milton

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What were the early settlements of Colonial New England?

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  • Jamestown
  • Plymouth (Pilgrim colony)
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony (Puritan colony)
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What was the essence of Puritanism in Colonial New England?

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  • Bible rules the lives of men (Sola Scriptura)
  • influence by John Calvin
  • convenant theology
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What was the effects of Puritanism in Colonial New England?

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  • preeminence of the individual
  • freedom from oppressive governments
  • value of learning and education
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What are characteristics of Puritan literature in Colonial New England?

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“Puritan plain style”

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What are genres of Puritan literature in Colonial New England?

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  • tales of Indian captives
  • no fiction!
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Whose poems were published without her permission?

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Anne Bradstreet

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Who wrote “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “The Author to Her Book”?

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Anne Bradstreet

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26
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“my poetry is like a deformed child”

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Anne Bradstreet

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27
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Who was a bride from Puritanism to Neoclassicism?

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Jonathan Edwards

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Who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in reaction against the Halfway Covenant?

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Jonathan Edwards

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29
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What were four images to show God’s impending judgement?

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  • heavy as lead
  • waters behind a dam that keep piling up
  • bow and arrow
  • spider over the flame
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What was the Glorious Revolution? (Neoclassic Era)

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William and Mary come to the throne

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What was the Act of Union (1707)? (Neoclassic Era)

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formed Great Britain

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Where were the three religious aspects of the Neoclassics?

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  • traditionalism
  • rationalism
  • deism
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33
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What is traditionalism?

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tradition becomes the source of answers

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34
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What is rationalism?

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human reason is the source of knowledge

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What is deism?

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  • creator left universe to operate on its own
  • believed in essential goodness of man
  • afterlife in which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished
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36
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What is neoclassicism?

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  • man is a reasonable being
  • man lives in a logically-ordered universe
  • happiness depends in living reasonable with himself and his fellow man
  • man in society is man at his best
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What was the purpose of Neoclassical literature?

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improvement of morals and manners

38
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What was the dominant literary mode of the Neoclassicals?

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satire

39
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What are two types of satire?

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  • horation (gently mockery)
  • juvenilia (harsh and bludgeoning)
40
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Who wrote “Dictionary of the English Language” and “Ramble No4”?

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Samuel Johnson

41
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What are some characteristics of “Rambler No. 4”?

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  • authors should be careful what is presented to the young
  • young readers are easily led astray by what they read
  • some characters should not be presented in fiction
  • although necessary to be shown, vice should always digest
42
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Who wrote “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”?

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John Dryden

43
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Who is known from his versatility?

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John Dryden

44
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Who was the first English literary critic?

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John Dryden

45
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Who was the most “correct” poet of his age?

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Alexander Pope

46
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Whose believed that the aim of poetry was to make truth both memorable and beautiful?

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Alexander Pope

47
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Who wrote a poem when he was 12?

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Alexander Pope

48
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Who wrote “Ode on Solitude”?

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Alexander Pope

49
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What was the Halfway Covenant designed to do?

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hald decline

50
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What is a basic tenant of deism?

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solution to man’s problem is found in his reason, not the Bible

51
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What became an important philosophy during the neoclassical era?

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deism

52
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What did deists believe about Jesus?

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He is not God

53
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What becomes a dominant idea in deism?

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idea of progress

54
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What were some characteristics of literature in American neoclassicism?

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  • patterned after English writing
  • avoided ornate and extravagant prose
  • exhibited clarity and plainness
  • object was to teach and delight
55
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What are some genres of literature in American neoclassicism?

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  • political essays and pamphlets (great contributions)
  • novels (week but it’s a start)
  • drama (largely discouraged)
  • poetry (lacked popular appeal)
56
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Who wrote “Letters from an American Farmer”?

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Hector Crevecour

57
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Who was known for monarch “melting pot”?

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Hector Crevecour

58
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Who was the first black writer of consequences/slave and was a woman?

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Phillis Wheatley

59
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Who wrote ““On Being Brought from Africa to America”?

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Phillis Wheatley

60
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Who was a printer by trade?

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Benjamin Franklin

61
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Who wrote “Poor Richard’s Almanac” and “The Way to Wealth”?

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Benjamin Franklin

62
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Whose passion was science but gave to people?

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Benjamin Franklin

63
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What were some historical contexts of the Romantic period?

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  • Lyrical Ballads
  • Death of Sir Wilbur Scott
  • French Revolution (emphasized common man)
  • Reign of Terror (Napoleon)
64
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What were the two philosophies during the Romantic Era?

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transcendentalism and utilitarianism

65
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What are some characteristics of transcendentalism?

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  • Immanuel Kant
  • only truth is in nature; the Bible is discarded
  • each part of nature is as important as any other
  • man in naturally good
  • individual is more important than society
66
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What are some characteristics of utilitarianism?

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  • Jeremy Bentham
  • aim of human life to attain earthly happiness
  • virtue and vice determined by the degree they cause pain or pleasure
  • in society, happiness consists of the greatest good for the greatest number of people
67
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Who promoted primitivism (the preference for the uncivilized life) in the Romantic Era?

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

68
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What were some themes of the literature in the Romantic Era?

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  • nature
  • solitude
  • emotionalism
  • distant times, place
  • glorification of the commonplaces
  • exile
69
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Comparison between Neoclassical and Romantic

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(photo)

70
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Who wrote “Lyrical Ballads”, “Daffodils”, “My Heart Leaps Up”, “The World is Too Much With Us”?

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William Wordsworth

71
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Who believed poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings?

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William Wordsworth

72
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What is the common them of “Daffodils”?

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storing up images in the mind for later

73
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What is the main focus of “The World is too Much with Us”?

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the world can’t stop us from enjoying nature

74
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Who held a reputation based upon a smaller body of work than any other major English poet?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

75
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Who wrote “Kublah Khan”?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

76
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Who hated oppression of any sort?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

77
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Who considered poetry as an instrument of revolution, then reform?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

78
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Who wrote “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind”?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

79
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What are some themes in “Ozymandias”?

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  • tyrants are soon forgotten
  • “rubble is left of their works”
80
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How does “Ode to the West Wind” use the 4 elements?

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  • earth = blowing of the leaves
  • air = blowing of clouds
  • water = blowing of waves
  • fire = blowing of words
81
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What does Shelley compare to in “Ode to the West Wind”?

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  • himself
  • wants the west wind to blow his words around the world
82
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Who wrote “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

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John Keats

83
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Who achieved more at the age of his death than any other great English poet?

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John Keats

84
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Whose consuming passion was beauty?

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John Keats

85
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“beauty is truth, truth is beauty”

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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

86
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Who were the authors in the Puritan Era?

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Donne, Herbert, Milton, Bradstreet, Edwards

87
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Who were the authors in the Neoclassical Era?

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Johnson, Dryden, Pope, Crevecour, Wheatley, Franklin

88
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Who were the authors in the Romantically Era?

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Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats

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