Timeline

Question 1

When was the Classical age?

Answer 1

2000 BC - 500 AD

Question 2

When was the Medieval period?

Answer 2

500 - 1500

Question 3

When was the Renaissance period?

Answer 3

1500 - 1670

Question 4

When was the Enlightenment period?

Answer 4

1700 - 1800

Question 5

When was the Romantic period?

Answer 5

1798 - 1870

Question 6

When was the Victorian period?

Answer 6

1837 - 1901

Question 7

During the Renaissance period, what began to heavily influence writing?

Answer 7

• classical Greek and Roman literature and ideas

Question 8

What kind of ideas did English Renaissance poets explore? Give an example in one of your poems

Answer 8

• religious and social ideas

- eg. the church associations in “The Flea”

Question 9

What is an example in one of your poems that Renaissance poets explored ideas linked to social revolution?

Answer 9

• Wyatt’s defiance of Henry VIII in revealing his love for the ‘Hynde’

Question 10

What is another name for the Enlightenment period and why?

Answer 10

• the age of reason

- philosophical movements had a major impact on the literature of this time

Question 11

What was the belief that science and industry would do for humanity?

Answer 11

• they would push the progress of humanity

Question 12

How did authors in the Enlightenment period feel towards passion and emotions?

Answer 12

• they disapproved

Question 13

Name three early Romantic poets

Answer 13

• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Coleridge

Question 14

Name three late Romantic poets

Answer 14

• Lord Byron
• Percy Shelley
• John Keats

Question 15

How do metaphysical poets attempt to explain the inexplicable? Give an example in one of your poems

Answer 15

• use logic

- eg. Donne’s metaphor of the flea

Question 16

Name a cavalier poet from your anthology

Answer 16

• Richard Lovelace

Question 17

Who did cavalier poets attempt to emulate?

Answer 17

• Ben Jonson, a contemporary of Shakespeare

Question 18

What type of poetry did cavalier poets oppose?

Answer 18

• metaphysical

Question 19

What was cavalier poetry based on? How did this so obviously oppose metaphysical poets?

Answer 19

• sensual, romantic love and carpe diem

- their poetry was focused on the spiritual, scientific and moral

Question 20

What was the aim of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

Answer 20

• to unite English painters, poets and critics who wanted to reform English art

Question 21

What did the Brotherhood declare that their artists must be/ do/ have?

Answer 21

• have genuine ideas to express
• study nature closely to be able to express it
• produce good artistry
• sympathise with what is direct, serious and heartfelt in previous art and exclude what is conventional, self-parodying and learned by rote

Question 22

What did poetry of the Victorian period focus on?

Answer 22

• sensory elements with recurring themes of religion vs science conflict and an interest in medieval fables and legends

Question 23

What are the origins of the word ‘decadent’?

Answer 23

• originally name intended to insult Romantic writers but then embraced by some

Question 24

What did the decadent movement reject?

Answer 24

• the late 19th century’s industrialised society

Question 25

Name your two metaphysical poets

Answer 25

• John Donne

- Andrew Marvell