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236 Cards in this Set
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Dream of the Road
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Cynewulf
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Exeter Book
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Cynewulf
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Ecclesiastical History of the ENglish People
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Bede
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Translated Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
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Alfred
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sagas about Deirdre
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Ulster Cycle
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daughter of King Conchobar's storyteller Felim who is designed to be beautiful and bring death.
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Deirdre
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Raised by Lavarcham and falls in love with Conchobar's nephew Naisi and flees to Alba with his brothers
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Deirdre
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Son of sun god Lugh
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Cu Chulainn
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Subdues Aoife and has son conlaoch by her
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Cu Chulainn
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Cu fights the army of this person
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Queen Maeve (Mab)
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Domesday Book
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William the Conquerer
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Piers Plowman
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Langland
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poet dreams in Malvern Hills about Tower of Truth and dungeon of Wrong ; HOly CHurch explains visions ; Conscience persuades many to leave Seven Deadly Sins for St. Truth
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Piers Plowman
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TC's during the Trojan war - Pandarus helps get them together ; but the TC's dad exchanges her for a Trojan prisoner ; Diomedes brings her to a Greek Camp where she is unfaithful as Cassandra predicted.
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Troilus and Criseyde
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House of Fame
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Chaucer
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finds engraving of Dido and Aeneas in Venus's Temple
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House of Fame (Chaucer)
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The Legend of Good Women
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Chaucer
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QUeen ALceste has the author to write about 20 people who died in love including cleopatra, thisbe, dido, meda, ariadne, and philomela.
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THe Legend of Good Women
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elegy on death of John of Gaunt's wife Blanche of Lancaster, halcyon and Ceyx story
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The Book of the Duchess
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Parliament of Fowls
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Chaucer
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Parliament of Fowles
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Chaucer
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Scipio Africanus appears to younger Scipio in a dream ; on Valentines Day - 3 things fight over formel eagle.
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Parliament of Fowls
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Tabard Inn in Southwark, pilgrimage to St. Thomas a Becket shrine in Canterbury
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Canterbury Tales
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schoolboy sings hymn about Mary in Jewish ghetto and has throat cut but is saved by Mary who commands him to sing until a grain is removed from his tongue
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Prioress
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17-18 line tragedies including Bernabo of Milan, Ugolino, Pedro of Spain - etc.
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Monk
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Summoner and Devil swear friendship
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Friar
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Theseus defeats Creon at Thebes ; Arcite dies after winning tournament for the hand of Hippolyta's sister Emily and his cousin Palamon
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Knight
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TC forgives 3 enemies who beat his wife Prudence and killled his daughter Sophie
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Melibee
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carpenter John's wife Alison scorns Absolon but loves Nicholas who convinces JOhn to suspend three tubs in the attic in preparation for a second flood
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Miller
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mom of SUltan of Syria puts Constance adrift ; washed ashore in Northumberland and marries King Alla
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Man of Law
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used tricks to keep first 4 husbands in hand ; married 5th for love ; but a fight ruined everything. ; foul witch tells Authur's knight what women desire in over husbands.
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Wife of Bath
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Virginia killed by judge father, whom Apius condemns to hanging, but people revolt and he commits suicide
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Physiciain
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3 revelers want to slay death, who killed friend with plague ; find treasure under tree ; stab and poison each other over the gold
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Pardoner
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fox Don Russell seizes rooster Chauntecleer as he had dreamed but had been mocked by wife Pertelote
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Nun's Priest
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description of Confession, 7 deadly sins, and pentinence
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Parson
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miller Simkin steals grain from scholars John and Alan who spend the night at his house and sleep with his wife and daughter
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Reeve
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archer Phebus's white cow tells him his wife had an affair and he killers her and then turns against the tattle-tale crow
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Manciple
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knight January's sight is restored but his wife May has an affair with Damyan
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Merchant
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John spends night with the merchant's wife ; John gets a loan
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Shipman
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knight brings gifts on birthday of Tartar King Cambuscan ; and his daughter Canacee wears a ring that lets her talk to a ffalcon
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Squire
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describes futility of alchemy
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Canon's Yeoman
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Marquis Walter marries Griselda and tests her loyalty
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Clerk
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apprentice Perkin likes dice and women
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Roger the Cook
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Aurelius removes all rocks from British coast to win Arveragus's wife Dorigen
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Franklin
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Le MOrte d'Author
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Malory
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Pearl Poet
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Utopia
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More
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Book I dialogue analyzes ills in England while Book II describes the T, with humanism
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Utopia
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A Garland of Laurel
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John Skelton
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Philip Sparrow
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Skelton
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describes futility of alchemy
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Canon's Yeoman
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Marquis Walter marries Griselda and tests her loyalty
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Clerk
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apprentice Perkin likes dice and women
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Roger the Cook
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Aurelius removes all rocks from British coast to win Arveragus's wife Dorigen
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Franklin
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Le MOrte d'Author
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Malory
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Pearl Poet
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Utopia
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More
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Book I dialogue analyzes ills in England while Book II describes the T, with humanism
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Utopia
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A Garland of Laurel
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John Skelton
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Philip Sparrow
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Skelton
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Astrophel and Stella
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Sidney
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sonnets by the author for Penelope Devereux
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Astrophel and Stella
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An Apologie for Poetrie
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Sidney
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The Fairy Queen
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Spenser
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12 books on each moral virtue
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Fairy Queen
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The Anniversaries
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John Donne
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
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Poetical Blossoms
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Cowley
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The Temple
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George Herbert
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Raphael tells Adam about Satan's revolt and expulsion ; Satan dresses as serpent and tempts eve to eat the apple.
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Paradise Lost
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Sin and Death enter the world ; Michael leadsd them out of the Garden of Eden
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Paradise Lost
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Jesus resists Satan's temptation ; suggested b yQuaker Thomas Ellwood
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Paradise Regained
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Samson Agonisted
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John Milton
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TC betrayed by Delilah and blinded by PHilistines and destroys a temple
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Samson Agonistes (JM)
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Il Penseroso
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John MIlton
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Lycidas
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John MIlton
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commemorates death of Edward King ; title from the sheperd in the Bucolics
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Lycidas
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Areopagitica
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John Milton
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pamphlet against restriction of freedom of press
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Areopagitica
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Comus
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John Milton
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A young lady is left by two brothers in the woods captured by the TC
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Comus
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THe Spanish Tragedy
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Kyd
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Spanish marhsal Hieronimo's son Horatio loves Bel-Imperia and islain by Lorenzo and prince of Portugal
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The SPanish Tragedy
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Marlowe is a part of this groupo
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University Wits
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Tamburlaine
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Marlowe
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Scythian sheperd TC becomes Persian king and marries Soldan's daughter Zenocrate
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Tamburlaine (CM)
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Dr. Faustus
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Marlowe
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Barabas looses fortune and wants revenge on invading turks, murders daughter and whole nunnery with poisoned porridge and dies in a cauldron
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Jew of Malta
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Jew of Malta
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Marlowe
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Volpone
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Jonson
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Venetian nobleman is aided by servant MOsca (fly) and pretends to be sick so people will give him gifts. Visitors include Voltore [vulture], Corbaccio (crow) and Corvino (raven)
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Volpone
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The Alchemist
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Jonson
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Subtle and Doll Common set up shop in Lovewit's house while he is gone and trick Face and Sir Epicure Mammon but not Surly
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The Alchemist
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Everyman in/out of his humor
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JOnson
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Wellbred and Young Kno'well escape brother-in-law and father ; Captain bobadil, kitely, stephen, kno'well, dame kitely
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Everyman in his humor
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Epicure or THe Silent Woman
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Jonson
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MOrose tries to disinherit his nephew Sir Dauphine by marrying silent TC who turns out to be a boy
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Epicene or the Silent Woman (BJ)
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The Poetaster
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Jonson
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Philaster or Love Lies
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Beaumont and Fletcher
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Jonson's disciples
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Beaumont and Fletcher
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The Maid's Tragedy
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Beaumont and Fletcher
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A King and No King
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Beaumont and Fletcher
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The Faithful Sherperdess
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John Fletcher
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THe Two Noble Kinsmen
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John Fletcher
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Theseus holds tournament in which Arcite wins hand of Theseus's sister Emilia and Palamon is to be behaded but Arcite falls off horse
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The Two Noble Kinsman (JF)
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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Beaumont
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To Make Much of Time
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Herrick
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To the Virgins
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Herrick
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Delight in Disorder
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Herrick
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Hesperides
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Herrick
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Corinna's Going A-Maying
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Herrick
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To ALthea from Prison
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Lovelace
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Aglaura
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John Suckling
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Sessino of the POets
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John Suckling
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Brennoralt
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John Suckling
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The HOnest Whore Part I
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Thomas Dekker
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A Trick to catch the Old ONepoor
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Middleton
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Advancement of Learning
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Francis Bacon
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New Atlantis
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Bacon
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Voyage to Bensalem Island, which had solomon's house, inspiration for royal society
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New Atlantis
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Novum Organum
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Bacon
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"New Instrument" - inductive method
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Novum Organum
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Essays Concerning Human Understanding
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Locke
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Treatises on Government
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Locke
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tabula rasa
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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HIstory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Gibbon
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AN Enquiry concerning human understanding
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Hume
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Leviathan
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Hobbes
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supports strong gov to combat egoism, root of all social conflict
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Leviathan
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The Compleat Angler
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Izaak Walton (or the Contemplative Man's Recreation)
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Piscator and hunter Venator argue over best support ; the friend Auceps is silenced
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The Compleat Angler
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Absalom and AChitophel
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Dryden
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attacks puritan attempts to exclude catholic duke of york from english throne ; added to by Nahum Tate
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Absalom and AChitophel
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depicts Thomas Shadwell as successsor of Richard TC in bad verse
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MacFlecknoe
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Conquest of Grenada
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Dryden
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The Medal
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Dryden
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criticizes earl of shaftesbury (accused of treason)
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The Medal
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The Hind and the Panther
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Dryden
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James II is lion who protects his hind : the Church of Rome and from bears [independents], wolves [Presbyterians], hare [quakers], apes, boars, panthers
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The Hind of the Panther
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All for Love (The World WEll Lost)
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Drden
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JD about Antony and Cleo)
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All for Love
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Essay of Dramatic Poesie
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Dryden
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4 englishmen on thames want to see battle with dutch fleet
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Essay of Dramatic Poesie (JD)
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Annus Mirabilis
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Dryden
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describes 1666 london fire and dutch war
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Annus Mirabilis (JD)
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translated vergil
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Dryden
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Venice Preserved
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Thomas Otway
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The Rehearsal
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Geroge Villiers
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Love for Love
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Congreve
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Angelica helps Valentine get back his inheritance, which he gave to his sea-faring brother Ben so his father Sampson Legend would pay his debts
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Love for Love (WC)
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Way of the World
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Congreve
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Mirabell loves Millamant but pretends to like aunt Lady Wishfort ; they negotiate an agreement to marry ; others including Sir Wilfull Witound.
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Way of the World
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THe Mourning Bride
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Congreve
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Secret Diary
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Pepys
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Pilgrim's Progress
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Bunyan
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Life and Death of Mr. Badman
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Bunyan
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Essay on Criticism
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Pope
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"little learning is a dangerous thing" "to err is human, to forgive divine"
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Essay on criticism
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essay on man
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Pope
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rape of the lock
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pope
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lord petre cuts a piece of hair from Arabella Fermor's hair - the heroine is Belidna
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Rape of teh Lock
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attacks pope's critics including Lewis Theobald, colley cibber, king of dunces, and goddess Dullness prevails
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The Dunciad
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The Dunciad
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Pope
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epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Pope
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dialogue between author and a physician, attacks Addison and Hervey
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (AP)
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translated the Iliad
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Pope
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Tale of a Tub
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Swift
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ridicule of religious extemists, Peter [catholic], jack [protestant], martin [lutheran] ; grub street hacker writer revelas in digression of madness he is an inmate of Bedlam
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Tale of a Tub
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Modest Proposal
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Swift
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Battle of the Books
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Swift
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ridiculues arguments of William Temple and Richard Bentley about ancient versus modern authors ; battle in the St. James library
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Battle of the Books
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Journal to Stella
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Swift
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Spectator
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Addison + Steele
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essays by club, including Roger de Coverley, will honeycomb, andrew freeport, and capt. sentry
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Spectator
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The Tatler
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Steele
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pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff
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Steele
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works at Newgate, works as prostitute, sent to virginia, dies penitent
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Moll Flanders
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Defoe
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account of plague "HF" 1665
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Journal of the Plague Year
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Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson
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refused patronage of Lord Chesterfield
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Johnson (dictionary)
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Rasselas
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Johnson
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TCF, sister Nekayah and mentor Imlac escape Oriental Happy Valley to explore world ; visit Cairo and return to the Happy Valley
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Rasselas
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Lives of the Poets
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Samuel Johnson
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Rambler
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Samuel Johnson
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Life of Johnson
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Boswell
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remember for help of Edmund Malone
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Boswell
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Vicar of Wakefield
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Goldsmith
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Charles Primrose loses income and moves family to humbler house ; daughter Olivia is abducted by Squire Thornhill ; house burns down and Primrose is imprisoned for debt and sophia is abducted. George is imprisoned.
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Vicar of Wakefield (OG)
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Deserted Village
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Goldsmith
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She Stoops to Conquer
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goldsmith
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marlow loves miss hardcastle but is tricked into believing her dad's castle is a village end ; she poses as barmaid to seduce marlow
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She stoops to conquer
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citizen of the world
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goldsmith
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chinese lien chi altangi reports on visit to England and rescues daughter of man in black from Persi
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citizen from the world (OG)
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Good Natur'd Man
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Oliver Goldsmith
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honeywood imprisoned to see if friends leave him - he loves Miss Richland
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good natur'd man (OG)
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School for Scandal
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Sheridan
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Joseph surface makes overtures to Lady Teazle to get access to her husband Sir Peter's war Maria, who loves brother Charles
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School for Scandal
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Lady Teazle hides behind screen and peter in a closet ; joseph's uncle Surface comes disguised as Mr. Premium
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SChool for SCandal
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Jack Absolute, son of Anthony Absolute, woods Lydia Languish under guise of ensign Beverly, Lydia's aunt and Mrs.s Malaprop ; absolute's friend bob acres loves lydia
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The Rivals
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Elegy written in a country churchyard
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Gray
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ends with the Epitaph
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Gray
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
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Blake
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Book of Thel
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Blake
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Blake
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doctrine of contraries
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marriage of heaven and hell
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Milton
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Blake
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JM returns from heaven to correct misinterps of his work
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Blake
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
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Thomas Percy
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Clarissa
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Richardson
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harlowe commanded to marry Mr. Soames, and flees with Robert Lovelace, who prapes her (longest novel
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Clarissa
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Pamela or Virtue Rewarded
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Richardson
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first modern novel
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Pamela
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son of TC's employer, Mr. B pursues her but she resists but reforms him
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Pamela
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Tom Jones
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Fielding
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Squire ALlworthy raises TC of his servant Jenny jones and son Blifil of sister Bridget and captain Blifil ; blifil gets him into trouble ; both love Squire Western's daughter Sophia
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Tom Jones
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Joseph Andrews
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Fielding
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Pamela's brother TC refuses employer Lady Booby's advances and flles to his love Fanny Goodwill in London
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Joseph Andrews
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Amelia
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Fielding
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TC is wife of imprisoned Captain Booth ; has an affair with Miss Mathews
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Amelia (HF)
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The LIfe of JOnathon Wild the Great
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Fielding
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TC represents Walpole
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The LIfe of Johnathon the Wild (HF)
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TOm THumb
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Fielding
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humphrey clinker
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smollett
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works for brambles and loves maid winifred jenkins ; becomes a methodist preacher
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humphrey clinker
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adventures of peregrine pickle
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smollett
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raised by aunt grizzle and one eyed veteran uncle and marries amanda
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adventures of peregrine pickle
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tristram shandy
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Sterne
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disorganized account of yorck father, walter, mom, and toby - inlcludes one sentence chapters, blank pages and unifnished sentences
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Tristram Shandy (LS)
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A Sentimental journey
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Sterne
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trip through france and italy - yorick weeps over donkey chewing thistle
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Sentimental Journey (LS)
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Fanny Hill the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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John Cleland
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The Castle of Otranto
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Walpole
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Manfred, godson of usuper who had poisoned alfonso marries isabela after son conrad is crushed by helmet
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castle of otranto
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john gilpin
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william cowper
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