English Final Poets And Other Crap

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Elizabethan playwriter; married anne hathaway; Lord Chamberlain's Men; Globe Theater; wrote Macbeth, Much ado about nothing, merchant of venice

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Shakespeare

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Jacobean poet; two phases- poems then preacher; holy sonnets, song, a valediction: forbidding mourning

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John Donne

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Metaphysical poet; To His Coy mistress

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Andrew Marvel

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Jacobean poet; Tribe of Ben; Important dramatist; adopted by brick layer; Hot temper; beginning of Neoclassism; poet laureate to James I; On my first son, On my first daughter

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Ben Johnson

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Tribe of Ben; most demonstrativle loyal to Tribe of Ben; jacobean poet; distinguished by high degree of stylistic polish; To the virgins to make much of time, To Daffodils

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Robert Herrick

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Cavalier poet; Tribe of Ben; constant lover, why so pale and wan

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sir john suckling

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cavalier poet; to lucasta on going to wars, to althea from prison

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richard lovelace

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allegory

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a tale in verse or praose in which charactoers, actions, or settings represents abstract ideas or moral qualities......Ex. John Bunyan's the pilgrim's progress

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satire

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a kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrong-doings of people

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Tribe of Ben

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Group consisting of Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling. met with Ben Johnson and talked about poetry.

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Neoclassism

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a revivla in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of classical standards of order, balance, and harmony in literature

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Romanticism

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a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism

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conceit

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a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things

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metaphysical poetry

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poetry written by John Donne. is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, elaborate imagery and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas

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Carpe Diem

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term meaning seize the day

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Paradox

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a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue

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oxymoron

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a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms

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Restoration

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period that started with the Stuart family returned from exile. a time when political leaders sought to establish society on a firm basis, and a time when dislike of change became almost a guiding principle

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greatest writer of the seventeenth century; Puritan; Paradise Lost

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John Milton

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wrote Pilgrim's Progess and Vanity Fair

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John Bunyan

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used shorthand; wrote diaries; wrote "personal affairs"

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Samuel Pepys

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served as a secret agent; adventures of Robinson Crusoe; a journal of the plague year

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Daniel de Foe

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Britain's greatest satirist; wrote Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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half of most famous partnership in English literature, co-creator of periodcal essay, wrote 'the tatler' and 'the specator' created Sir Roger

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Joseph Addison

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most famous partnership with Addison, co creator of periodical essay, 'the tatler' and 'the spectator'

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Richard Steele

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physically deformed ahd tuberculosis, Roman Catholic, translated all of Homer into English, wrote 'The Rape of the Lock'

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Alexander Pope

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clumsy and physically unattractive, wrote Dictionary of English Language, periodical essays-Rambler and Idler, philosophical novel-Rasselas, important edition of Shakespeare's plays, famous Letter to Lord Chesterfield

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Samuel Johnson

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wrote diarys-'the life of samuel johnson' greatly admired Johnson, born into a Scottish family

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James Boswell

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'elegy written in a country courtyard' slow writter, forerunner of romantics, wrote about nature and personal stuff

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Thomas Gray

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Scottish, 'ae fond kiss', 'o wert thou in the cauld blast', to a mouse' national poet of Scotland

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Robert Burns

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most spirtual of artists, engraver, romantic, 'songs of innocence and songs of experience'

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William Blake

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'the rime of the ancient mariner' kubla khan' 'frost at midnight' romantic poet, literary critic

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Samuel Coleridge

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wrote the Lucy Poems, early romantic poet

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William Wordsworth

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period of Puritan rule; Charles II - James II

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common wealth

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period after the rule of Puritans

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Restoration

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early romantic poets

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wordsworth, coleridge

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late romantic poets

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byron, shelly, keats

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truely love Duncan, fights Macbeth in the end, first to discover Duncan's death

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Macduff

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kids will inherit scotland's throne

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Banquo

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thane of Glomis, thane of cawdor

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macbeth

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"Lord Protector", overthrew the Stuart monarchy as a result of the English Civil War

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Oliver Cromwell

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king of england from 1600-1640. got overthrew and executed

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Charles I

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became king of england 1660, reigned during great plague and great fire of london, loved women too much

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Charles II

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Duke of York, wanted to turn england in to catholics, became king in 1685

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James II

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fictional character of Addison

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Roger de Coverly

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signed the English Bill of Rights

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William and Mary

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shakespeare's theater

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Globe Theater

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location in Pilgrim's Progress by John Buyan, Christian is the hero

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Vanity Fair