Unit 7: Short Answers Flashcards
Who were the Chartists?
Radicals who organized mass demonstrations and presented parliament with petitions demanding reforms
Name the three missionaries sent out by the evangelicals in Victorian England and tell the places in which they served.
- Hudson Taylor-China
- William Carey- India
- David Livingston-Africa
What book took seventy years to complete and is possibly the most challenging work of of scholarship ever accomplished?
The Oxford English Dictionary
What are the years of the Victorian Period?
1832-1914
Who has an even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did Darwin’s ideas?
German Biblical Scholars
What famous Victorian preacher contributed greatly to the art of the sermon?
Spurgeon
Lost the two areas in which Carlyle has his greatest impact on Victorian England.
- Religious though
2. Social criticism
Who preceded Tennyson’s as poet laureate of England?
William Wordsworth
Who’s view of creation is closest to that of theistic evolution?
Robert Browning
What are the two characteristics of effective parody?
- A close relation in form between the original and the parody
- A distinct difference in tone between the original and the parody
What was Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?
As “noble” rustics on contented pagans
Housman’s poetry challenges what two Christian beliefs?
- God’s justice
2. Purposeful control over the universe
What’s ironic that Hardy spent much of his early life employed in the physical restoration of churches?
He was very antagonist toward Christianity
“Oh to be in __________/ Noe that __________’s there.
England
April
Hopkin’s “sprung rhythm”, which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of what earlier type of poetry?
Old English Poetry
