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| greatest English prose satirist |
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| lands explored in Gulliver's Travels |
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Lilliput
Brobdingnag
Laputa
Houyhnhnmland |
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oldest Germanic epic
greatest Anglo-Saxon poem |
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| basic qualities of an epic |
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long & narrative
great national hero, has high station
lofty language
supernatural elements
shows struggle of good vs. evil |
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| Anglo-Saxon period: characteristics |
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mostly prose, little poetry
mix of pagan & Christian beliefs
sense of violence, doom, & death
heroes had bravery, courage, super-human strength |
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| Anglo-Saxon period: genres |
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epic, elegy
riddles, history |
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| long, serious, formal poem; often a eulogy |
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| formal poem reflecting on nature & death |
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| Medieval period: characteristics/themes |
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courtliness, chivalry, sentiment, ornateness, religious
lighthearted/humorous
religious topics |
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love lyric, ballad
romance, beast fable
allegory, drama |
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allegorically represents battle in which vices & virtues wage for human soul
characters are abstract concepts |
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| shows corruption of all levels of society |
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| English Renaissance period: characteristics |
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variety, experimentation, ornateness
patriotic, didactic
"modern" English
re-birth in:
Philosophy, Religion, politics, science |
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| English Renaissance period: genres |
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medieval romance, allegory
pastoral, sonnet
blank verse, lyric poetry
prose: translations, philosophy, criticism, prose romance, essay |
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| combines allegory, epic, and romance |
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short poem
characterized by emotion, melody, & imagination |
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| Italian/Petrarchan sonnet |
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octave + sestet
has division of thought |
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| English/Shakespearean sonnet |
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3 quatrains + 1 couplet
3 examples/ideas, then conclusion |
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| considered greatest human writer ever |
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| Puritan Age period: characteristics/themes |
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themes: government, philosophy, religion, history, biography
Cavalier poets (light poems on love & pleasure)
Metaphysical poets (abstract poems on life's difficulties) |
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| Puritan Age period: genres |
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prose (religious/political)
poetry
LITTLE TO NO drama! |
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| elaborate comparison between 2 dissimilar things |
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| greatest English allegory |
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| Restoration/18th Century period: characteristics/themes |
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rationalism, common sense, deism, didactic
Neoclassicism |
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| Restoration/18th Century period: genres |
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satire, elegy, ode, epistle
journal(ism), novel |
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chief Restoration writer
poet laureate under Charles II |
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developed Neoclassicism
literature written for aristocracy
1600-1700 |
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flourishing of Neoclassicism
literature written for middle-class
1700-1750 |
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decline of Neoclassicism
1750-1798 |
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| best poet of early 18th Century |
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greatest writer of 18th Century
accepted Neoclassicism but rejected deism |
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pre-Romantic poet
hymn writer
(befriended J. Newton) |
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Scotland's greatest poet
used Scottish dialect
advocated Scottish nationalism |
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| Anglo-Saxon period: dates |
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| English Renaissance period: dates |
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| Puritan Age period: dates |
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| Restoration/18th Century period: dates |
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| Anglo-Saxon philosophy: loyalty to lord/king |
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Eng. Renaissance philosophy: study of ancient works
"man's place in God's world" |
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| Restoration/18th Century philosophy |
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| Anglo-Saxon period: themes |
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| loyalty to king, desire of personal glory, need for revenge, immortalization through poetry |
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| Anglo-Saxon period: history |
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Rome conquers Celts, establish their law
Rome withdraws, leave Celts to be conquered by other people-groups |
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Edward (last Saxon king) dies,Harold of Wessex becomes king
French literature
end = end of War of Roses |
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| English Renaissance period: history |
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Henry VII to James I
includes Elizabethan period
Golden Age of Brit Lit
includes Eng. Restoration |
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| Puritan Age period: history |
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Charles I vs. Parliament
Eng. Civil War
Cromwell + Commonwealth |
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| leader of Metaphysical poets |
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| Restoration/18th Century period: history |
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Invocation to Muse
middle of action
epic similes
cataloging |
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| justify ways of God to man |
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