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62 Cards in this Set
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VICTORIAN
Influenced by excessive alcohol, a man sells his wife and daughter to a sailor, only to realize his mistake with horror when he is sober the following day. He spends the next two decades trying to conceal what he has done but must ultimately face the consequences for his actions when his wife and daughter reappear in his life. |
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
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E. M. Forster's novel of a young girl who visits Europe for the first time and functions thematically as a parody of middle-class morality and attempts to imitate upper-class values is which of the following?
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A Room With a View
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NEOCLASSICAL
The female Restoration playwright Aphra Behn may be credited with which of the following works? |
The Rover, Oroonoko
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VICTORIAN
A hostess spends her day preparing for a party at her home in the evening, and during the course of the day experiences a variety of conflicting emotions. At the party she hosts, she must reacquaint herself with friends from the past, bringing up complex memories. |
Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
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RENAISSANCE (early)
Edmund Spenser, 1590-1596 romance epic, petrachan themes; idolizes courtliness/chivalry. celebrates tudors. intended to fashion a gentleman: holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice and courtesy. ea book=12 cantos redcrosse, britomat, arthur, faeries, elves spiritual allegory. |
The Fairie Queen
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RENAISSANCE-ELIZABETHAN
Tamburliane (1587) Jew of Malta (1591) Dr. Faustus (1589) blank verse |
Christopher Marlowe
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RENAISSANCE
Sir Phillip Sidney (1577-85) most influential prose b/f pilgrim's progress. 2 ship-wrecked princes fall in love w/daughters of king Acadia. |
Arcadia
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RENAISSANCE
Sir Phillip Sidney(1580-84) 1st true sonnet sequence. 108 sonnets in petrarchan form. |
Astrophel & Stella
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RENAISSANCE-CARLOLINIAN (1637-1660)
Robert Herrick Thomas Carew Sir John Suckling Richard Lovelace embodied life/culture of upper-class pre-comm england. courtly themes beauty, love, loyalty. direct. |
Cavalier Poets
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RENAISSANCE-CAROLINIAN (1625-1649)
Johnn Donne George Herbert Edward Taylor Andrew Marvell- to his coy mistress Henry Vaughan Abraham Cowley Richard Crashaw Thomas Traherne |
Metaphysical Poets
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NEOCLASSICAL
A political satire in verse by John Dryden. Written in heroic couplets, the poem attacks Puritan attempts to exclude the duke of York, the legitimate heir, from the throne of England because of his Catholicism. Using Biblical terminology, Dryden describes the efforts of the earl of Shaftesbury to incite the duke of Monmouth to rebellion against his father. |
Absalom and Achitophel
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RENAISSANCE- (Cavalier poet)
in this poem, written by English poet, Robert Herrick (1591-1674), he warns the reader to enjoy life in the present. It begins, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." -carpe diem themes |
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
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RENAISSANCE
(1605) Ben Jonson. Volpone, destructs himself by greed and lust. other char: Mosca (slave), Celia (wife of Corvino), Voltore (a legacy hunter) |
Volpone
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Brutus, Julius Caesar, Antony, Cassius, Portia, Calpurnia
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Julius Caesar Characters
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Alonso, Antonio, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand, Miranda, Prospero, Sebastian
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Tempest Characters
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Hotspur and Percy, Harry, Falstaff
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Henry VI Characters
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Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Gloucester, Edmund, Edgar, Albany, Kent, Fool
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King Lear Characters
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Duncan, Banquo, Fleance, Dunsinane Castle, Macduff, Malcom, three witches,
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MacBeth Characters
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Horatio, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Fortinbras
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Hamlet characters
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RENAISSANCE
Marlowe: Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields... |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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NEOCLASSICAL--augustan age
John Gay's; sung in English and with tunes familiar to the audience, this humorous ballad, or dialog, opera was the answer of the middle-class England to the gods and heroes of the aristocratic opera seria. |
The Beggar's Opera
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NEOCLASSICAL--age of sensibility
Rasselas is a prose fable written by Samuel Johnson. The story follows travelers in pursuit of the "formula for happiness" |
Rasselas
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VICTORIAN
Robert Burns, O, my luve's like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June: O, my luve's like the melodie that's sweetly played in tune |
A Red, Red Rose
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VICTORIAN
Coleridge. 1798. Mariner returning from a voyage, tells a story to The Wedding Guest. Albatross (represents the Christian soul) in the story. |
Rhime of the Ancient Mariner
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VICTORIAN
Coleridge: "And close your eyes with holy dread, for he on honey-dew hath fed and drunk the milk of Paradise." (poem about opium addiction) |
Kubla Kahn
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Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on Meloncholy Ode on Indolence To Autumn |
John Keats
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VICTORIAN
Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Emma |
Jane Austen
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VICTORIAN
Noted for historical fiction The Antiquary Old Mortality Rob Roy Quentin Durward Ivanhoe |
Sir Walter Scott
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VICTORIAN
Jane Eyre Shirley |
Charlotte Bronte
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VICTORIAN
Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte
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VICTORIAN
Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Romola Felix Hall, the Radical Middlemarch |
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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VICTORIAN
The Warden Barchester Towers The Last Chronicle of Barset |
Anthony Trollope
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VICTORIAN
The Ordeal of Richard Feveral Beauchamp's Career The Egoist |
George Meredith
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VICTORIAN
Far from the Madding Crowd-pastoral epic, bathsheba The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the D'Udervilles Jude the Obscure-young man's pursuit of edu |
Thomas Hardy
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VICTORIAN
Ulysses Locksley Hall In Memoriam-elegiac to friend Idylls of the King--arthurian legend The Lady of Shallot-medieval allegory The Vision of Sin Locksley Hall Sixty Years After |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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VICTORIAN
The Seraphim and Other Poems Sonnets from the Portuguese-maudlin love for husband Aurora Leigh-novel in verse on women in victorian society--her masterpiece |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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VICTORIAN
Men and Women Dramatis Personae-grief over wife's death The Ring and the Book-blank verse, long, based on real italian murder trial |
Robert Browning
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VICTORIAN
Memorial Verses-re: death of wordsworth The "Marguerite" Poems-communicate with beloved The Buried Life-inability communicate in intimacy (1852) The Scholar-Gypsy Stanzas from the Granda Chartreuse Thyrsis-pastoral elegy, death of a friend Dover Beach-lose of religious faith |
Matthew Arnold
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EDWARDIAN--contem dramatist of shaw
The Forsyte Saga (1922) A Modern Comedy |
John Galsworthy
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POST-WAR
Decline and Fall Vile Bodies Brideshead Revisited (1945) |
Evelyn Waugh
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EDWARDIAN/EARLY MODERNIST
A Room with a View (1908) Howard's End A Passage to India (1924) |
E.M. Forster
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EARLY MODERNIST/POST-WAR
Brighton Rock The Power and the Glory The Heart of the Matter The End of the Affair (1951) |
Graham Greene
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EDWARDIAN/E. MODERNIST
The Wandering of Oisin Poems-(1895)rose symbolism The Wind Among the Reeds (1899-love for maud) The Green Helmet/Other Poems (1910-loss of maud) The Tower-collection 1928 (leda &the swan, sailing to byzantium, crazy jane)-prophetic |
William Butler Yeats
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EDWARDIAN/E.MODERNIST
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917) The Waste Land (1922)-sterile futility of mod life. The Hollow Men (1925-mods effigies stuffed w/straw) Ash-Wednesday-1930-faith era, inspired by purgatorio Murder in the Cathedral-martyrs & who executes them Four Quartets-(1940)- nature of art, revelation of god |
T.S. Eliot
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EDWARDIAN- irish dramatist
Riders to the Sea (1903) tragedy The Playboy of the Western World-comedy Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) |
John Synge
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E. MODERN/POST-WAR-tragicom irish dramatist
Juno and the Paycock (1924) The Plough and the Stars (1926) Withing the Gates The Stars Turn Red (1940) |
Sean O'Casey
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EDWARDIAN/E. MODERN-playright/novelist
Our Betters (1917-satire play title hungry americans) The Constant Wife (1926-play wife revenge cheat hubs) The Painted Veil The Razor's Edge Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham
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Waiting for Godot
Endgame Krapp's Last Tape Happy Days Come and Go Breath Not I |
Samuel Beckett
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Jumpers Travesties Every Good Boy Deserves Favor |
Tom Stoppard
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Lord Jim
Youth Nostromo The Secret Agent Under Western Eyes |
Joseph Conrad
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Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses Finnegans Wake |
James Joyce
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The White Peacock
Sons and Lovers Women in Love The Plumed Serpent Lady Chatterley's Lover |
D. H. Lawrence
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Crome Yellow
Antic Hay Point Counter Point Brave New World Eyeless in Gaza |
Aldous Huxley
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The Birthday Party
The Caretaker The Homecoming No Man's Land |
Harold Pinter
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I, Claudius
Claudius the God Antiguq, Penny, Pruce The Golden Fleece |
Robert Graves
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Songs before Sunrise
Atalanta in Calydon Poems and Ballads Poems and Ballads, Second Series Heptalogia Tristram of Lyonesse |
Algernon Swinburne
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ROMANTIC
The Prelude-massive, blank verse masterpiece Lyrical Ballads (w/ Colderidge)-1798 lucy poems "the world is too much with us" "ode: intimations of immorality"-child philos (1807) "solitary reaper", "london" |
William Wordsworth
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ROMANTIC
Song of Innocence & Experience (1790) Daughters of Albion the Book of Thel The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) The Four Zoas |
William Blake
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NEOCLASSICAL
Go and Catch a Falling Star The Indifferent A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Flea The Ecstasy The Canonization Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward |
John Donne
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MIDDLE ENGLISH
Canterbury Tales The Book of the Duchess Troilus and Cressida The Legend of Good Women Parliament of Fowls |
Chaucer
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ROMANTIC
confessions of an english opium eater (1821) reveals his addiction in imaginative, rich detail. ROMANTIC--Prose essayist |
Thomas DeQuincey
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Essays of Elia (1833)
ROMANTIC-Prose essayist |
Charles Lamb
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