Unit 6

Question 1

John Dryden

Answer 1

The Conquest of Granada (1670)
-Aurengzebe (1676) – struggle for empire in India
-All for Love (1678) – blank verse, based on Antony & Cleopatra

->Some writers see stupidity in situations of heroic plays & satirize them e.g. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham The Rehearsal (1672)

Question 2

Sir george etheradge

Answer 2

The Man of Mode (1676)

Question 3

William congreve

Answer 3

The Old Bachelor (1693)

The Way of the World (1700)

Question 4

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -> high popularity

Answer 4

The Rivals (1775) –

The School for Scandal (1777)

The Critic ( 1779) – satire of drama & literary criticism

Question 5

John dryen

Answer 5

• Essay on Dramatic Poesie (1668) capacity for criticism; led way to clear, reasonable, balanced prose
  -The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) – way to heaven through evils of the world
  -The Holy War (1682) – experiences during Civil War

Question 6

John locked

Answer 6

Essay on the Human Understanding (1690) clear, earnest prose; great contribution to philosophy

Question 7

Samuel pepys

Answer 7

Diary (1st Jan 1660-31st May 1669) written in signs, read 1825, details of events of the time

Question 8

John evelyb

Answer 8

Diary (1818) – travels in Europe, people of his time

Question 9

John Dryden

Answer 9

Rhymed couplets, chiefly satire and translations

▪Annus Mirabilis (1667) – events of 1666: great fire of London, war vs. Holland

▪Absolom and Achitophel (1681) – Bible story to attack politicians

▪MacFlecknoe (1682) – attack to a rival poet, Shadwell

▪Translations
-Latin: satires by Juvenal, whole Virgil, parts of Horace and Ovid
-Greek: parts of Theocritus and Homer

Question 10

Alexander pope

Answer 10

Follower of Dryden in verse, used rhymed couplets .-> Bad health, thought of life as long illness

▪ Essay on Criticism (1711)
▪ The Rape of the Lock (1712-14)
▪ Essay on Man (1732-24)

▪ Translations od Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

Question 11

Oliver goldsmith

Answer 11

• The Traveller (1764)
  -The Deserted Village (1770) ->Both written in heroic couplets

Question 12

Robert burns

Answer 12

National poet of Scotland, hundreds of love songs & lyrics Deep understanding & love for animals “My love’s like a red, red rose”

▪ “Mary Morison”
▪ “John Anderson” many of these include music
▪ “The Banks of Doon”

Question 13

William cowper

Answer 13

His poetry shows change from formal classical style of Pope to simpler & more natural expression of theRomantics

Question 14

Edward young

Answer 14

▪Night Thoughts (1742)
- very popular, blank verse
- Life, death, the future & God
- Unequal, dark, sad & full of strange imaginations

Question 15

Robert blair

Answer 15

▪The Grave (1743)

Question 16

Thomas gray

Answer 16

▪ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751): thoughts as he looks at graves, very famous

▪ Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742): happiness of schoolboys, future troubles

Question 17

William blake

Answer 17

Poetry has hidden meanings & often difficult to understand
Disbelief in material reality, power of earthly rules/rs, or punishment

-Songs of Innocence (1787)
- Songs of Experience (1794)
-The Tyger”