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236 Cards in this Set

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