Writers And Their Ages Flashcards

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Homeric Age

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Illiad and the Odyssey

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Writers of Classical Greek Period

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Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides

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Individual City States and early democracy

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Classical Greek period

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Patristic Period

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Saint Jerome compiled the first Bible.

Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Ambrose

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Dark Ages

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The old English or Anglo Saxon Period

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Why are dark ages called the dark ages, mofo?

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Because Rome fell and barbarian tribe move into Europe.
Franks, ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe.
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

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Work of the Dark Ages

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Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer

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Carolingian Renaissance

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Mediaeval Grammar, encyclopaedia etc

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What happens in 1066?

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Normal French Army invade and conquers England under William 1
Norman Conquest

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12th century Renaissance

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French chivalric romances spread

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Late or High Mediaeval Period’s write

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Chaucer, Gawain the poet, Pearl the poet, Wakefield Master, William Langland
Italian and French writers- Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Christine de Pisan

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Century of Renaissance

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15th 16th 17th century

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Which phases does reformation and renaissance see?

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early tudor
Elizabethan
jacobean
caroline
commonwealth or puritan
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What happens in early tudor period?

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War of roses end with Henry tudor claiming the throne.
Martin Luther’s split with Rome- Protestanism
Henry 8th Anglican schism- first protestant church

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Henry Tudor is who

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henry 7th

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Sample poet of Early Tudor

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Edmund Spenser

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Who is writing in the Elizabethan age

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Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Sidney

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Writers of Jacobean age

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Ben Jonson, John Donne, Amelia Lanyer

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Caroline’s Age

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John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick

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Sons of Ben

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, Thomas Killigrew, and William Cavendish.

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Puritan Interregnum’s writers

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Andrew Marvell, Sir Thomas Browne

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Phases of the enlightenment

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Restoration
Augustan
Johnson

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restoration period’s writers

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john dryden, john locke, samuel pepys, aphra behn, william temple

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Augustan period’s writers

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imitation of Virgil, Horace’s literature

Addison, Steele, Swift, Alexander Pope

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Age of Johnson writers

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Samuel Jonson,Edward Gibbon, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray

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who were the colonial writers

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Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

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Writers of Romantic Period

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Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Johann von Goethe in Germany

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which phases in American lit was conveyed during the English romantic era

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Transcendental

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Transcendentalists’ were who

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Emerson and Thoreau

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who were goths

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Radcliff, monk lewis, Bram Stoker

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American goths

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Poe, Hawthorne

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Victorian era writers

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tennyson, Arnold, Browningrobert browning, charles dickins

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pre raphaelittes were

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William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti,

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aesthetics and decadence movement flourished in____________ and writers were ____________________ _______________

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victorian era, walter pater, oscar wilde

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naturalists writers in America

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stephen crane

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walt whitman wrote in

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free verse

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Emily dickinson wrote in

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common measure

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modernist writers

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modernist writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen

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In America, the modernist period includes

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Robert Frost and Flannery O’Connor

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famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929)

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famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929) such as Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.

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The Harlem Renaissance marks the rise of black writers such as

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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes.
Zora Neale Hurston.
Countee Cullen.
Louis Armstrong.