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66 Cards in this Set
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The Prelude 1850
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Wordsworth's last great work
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Dorothy
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Wordsworth's sister
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"Real language of men in a state of vivid sensation"
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Lyrical Ballads -Wordsworth
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"spontaneous overflow"
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Lyrical Ballads - Wordsworth
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"emotion recollected in tranquility"
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Lyrical Ballads -Wordsworth
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Augusta
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Byron's half-sister with whom he has an affair
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Hours of Idleness
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Byron... about his college experience
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English Bards and Scottish Reviewers
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Byron... later regretted
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Child Herold's Pilgrimage
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Byron... published in 1812 and Byron becomes a celebrity
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He denounces the death penalty for framebreakers
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Byron
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The Corsier
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Byron... Sold 10,000 copies on first day
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"mad, bad and dangerous to know"
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Lady Caroline Lamb said this about Byron
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Medora
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Daughter of Byron and Augusta
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Annabel Willbank
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Byron marries for money, he cheats so she leaves him
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Augusta Ada
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Daughter of Byron and Annabel Willbank
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Written by Byron while with the Shelleys
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Manfred
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Clair Clairmont
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Mary Shelley's step sister with whom Byron becomes involved
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Allegra
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Daughter of Byron and Clair Clairmont
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Don Juan
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Byron... written while in Venice
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Theresa, Countess of Guccoli
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With Byron... They become involved in revolutionary groups
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5 Characteristics of Byronic Hero
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Despair (self-pity), Rebels against conventional morality, Defies fate, Overreaching Quest, "Proud moody and cynical, with defiance in his brow... scorner of his own kind..."
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Harriet Westbrook
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Percy Shelley's first wife
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Radical and unapologetic about it
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Percy Shelley
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William Godwin
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Father of Mary Shelley, serious and abusive drunk
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Claimed she would never marry or have Children
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Mary Wollstonecraft -Shelley's mother
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Gilmer Ilmay
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Affair with Mary Wollstonecraft, he saves her from prison and death
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Fanny
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Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilmer Ilmay, half sister of Mary Shelley... kills herself
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Clairmont
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Marries William Godwin
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Harriet Shelley
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Percy Shelley's sister... drowns herself
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Accomplished at a young age, only writes from 1814-1820
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John Keats
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Son of a horse stable keeper
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John Keats
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Apprentice of a Surgeon
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John Keats
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Lee Hunt
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Radical journalist -friend of Keats
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Fanny Brawn
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Secretly betrothed to John Keats
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Gets tb from mother
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John Keats
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16th Century
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-Henry VIII and 2nd wife Ambalin desire divorce -Break from Catholic Church
-Consolidation of English nation-state -Beginnings of Empire -Establishment of Anglican Church |
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17th Century
1642 |
-Turmoil of the Civil War -Cavaliers v. Roundheads(Oliver Cromwell and Puritans)
-1642 Outbreak and Oliver and Puritans win |
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Regicide
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1649 ...Puritans outlaw gambling and dancing etc, and execute Charles I-Becomes Common wealth and protectorate
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Restoration
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1660 ...Charles II restores monarchy -"Act of Oblivion" forgotten time -Theater etc is restored
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Glorious Revolution
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1688 ...James II catholic, but they want protestant, so he flees and William and Mary take over
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3 Characteristics of Englightenment
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Agricultural Society
Hierarchical Society Wealth concentrated in Aristocracy |
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Mimesis
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-During the "Augustan" Age or Neo-Classicism
-Dominant literary technique- not about originality, but about poets ability to tell story/arrange subject -Aristotle's poetics rediscovered from 15th century -Art imitates nature / mirror |
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"Those Rules of old dicovered, not devised,
Are Nature still, but Nature methodized" |
Alexander Pope
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Age of Reason
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Wigs, Gardens
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Romanticism
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1798 (Lyrical Ballads)-1832 (passage of 1st Reform Bill)
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Cockney School
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Keats
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Lake School
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Coleridge and Wordsworth
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Satanic School
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Byron and Shelley
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"That in this moment there is life and food for future years"
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Tintern Abbey -Wordsworth
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"Shades of the prison house begin to close Upon the growing boy..."
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Intimations of Immortality -Wordsworth
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"At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of Common day"
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Intimations of Immortality -Wordsworth
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"What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower..."
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Intimations of Immortality -Wordsworth
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"We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy... In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind."
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Intimations of Immortality -Wordsworth
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"
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Defense of Poetry -Percy Shelley
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"She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love and she be fair"
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Ode on a Grecian Urn -Keats
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"For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, For ever panting and for ever young"
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Ode on a Grecian Urn - Keats
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The poet is a man speaking to men, yet with greater sensibility
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Lyrical Ballads -Wordsworth
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The poet, in a state of delusion, becomes his characters
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Lyrical Ballads -Wordsworth
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"A virgin scene!"
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Nutting -Wordsworth
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A Poem to Milton
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London 1802 -Wordsworth
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Calling a poet ghost to come back and fix the world
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London 1802 -Wordsworth
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"The child is the Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety"
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Intimations of Immortality -Wordsworth
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"A glorious phantom may Burst, to illuminate our tempestuous day"
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England in 1819 -Shelley
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"our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught"
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To a Sky Lark -Percy Shelley
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Poets are made clean from the worst sins because they reveal to us truth in the hidden world
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A Defense of Poetry -Percy Shelley
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"beauty is truth and truth beauty"
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Ode on a Grecian Urn -Keats
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