English Literatue Clep

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Francis Bacon, key facts

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Known as "father of the essay" , wrote superb intellectual essays in the Renaissance spirit. Adviser to James 1
Lived from 1561-1626

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Francis Bacon, key works

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106 Essays, typical "Of Riches", praises wealth and how to spend it wisely. Advancement of Learning, and Novum Organum

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Cultural background of Ancient
British literature

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Many cultures and ethnic groups were in conflict in Ancient Britain. Romans, Germanic invaders, and Christian missionaries brought a diverse mix to the Celtic tribes.

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Name the two classes of the militant Anglo-Saxons

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Earls-ruling class
Churls- the bondsman. Society was organized by families and clans

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Works of Ancient Britian

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Beowulf-anonymous
Batttle of Maldon
both concerned with heroic battle feats

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Style of Old English Poetry

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Rhythm-four main beats per line to be song by Scops (Bards) accompanied by harps or lyres. Use of kennings, alliteration, repetition and rapid narrative style.

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Key Poems of Ancient Britian

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Deor's Lament (c.500) melancholy lyric of scop who has lost favor with king
The Wife's Lament- From Exeter Book c. 800) bitter lyric of wife living with hostile relatives after husband captured in battle
The Seafarer-from exter book c 725, doleful monologue by a sailor who is complaining of the cold northern sea and its fearful storms

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overview of beowolf

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anonymous author, first written in 1000 in wessex, historical evidence of hygelac's raid on the frisians, documented in frankish chronicles between 512-520

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Key narrative of Beowulf

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Beowulf, a Geat is called to battle, Grendel the monster raiding Hrothgars court, Beowulf wrenches off his arm, later kills Grendels mother with a magical sword and years later Beowulf is killed by a dragon

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Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

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600-1200 Beowulf

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Middle English

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1200-1500 Geoffrey Chaucer

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The English Renaissance

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1500-1660

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The English Renaissance
1500-1558

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Tudor Period Humanist Era Thomas More, John Skelton

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1558-1603

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Elizabethan Period High Renaissance Edmund Spenser,

Sir Philip Sidney,

William Shakespeare

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1603-1625

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Jacobean Period
Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer

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1625-1649

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Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton

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1649-1660

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The Commonwealth & The Protectorate Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes

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1660-1700

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The Restoration John Dryden

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1700-1800

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The Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period;

The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope,

Jonathan Swift,

Samuel Johnson

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1785-1830

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Romanticism
The Age of Revolution
William Wordsworth,
S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen,

the Brontës

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1830-1901

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Victorian Period
Early, Middle and Late Victorian Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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1901-1960

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Modern Period The Edwardian Era
G.M. Hopkins,
(1901-1910);H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence,

The Georgian Era
(1910-1914
T.S. Eliot

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Who wrote Paradise Lost?

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John Milton

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Who wrote Pilgrim's Progess?

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John Bunyan

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Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?

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Jonathan Swift

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Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?

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Daniel Defoe

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Who wrote To a Skylark?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

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Jane Austin

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Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

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Emily Jane Bronte

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Who wrote Jane Eyre?

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Charlotte Bronte

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Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?

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Anne Bronte

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Who wrote Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

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James Joyce

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Who wrote Lord Jim?

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Joseph Conrad

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Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

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Sir William Golding

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Who wrote The Wasteland?

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T. S. Eliot

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Who wrote Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

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Geoffery Chaucer

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Who wrote Essay of Dramatic Poesy?

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John Dryden

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Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"

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Dylan Thomas

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___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

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Camille

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Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

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Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

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Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

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The Poor Man and the Lady
The Return of Native

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Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

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John Keats

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"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."
This is an extract from:

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Paradise Regained

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William Shakespeare was born in the year:

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1564

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. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'

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William Shakespeare

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Who wrote The Traveler, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Vicar of Wakefield?

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Sophocles and Aeschylus were Roman playwrights.

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False

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ho wrote Emma?

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Jane Austen

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The Princess, In Memoriam, and Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington are the works of:

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Alfred Tennyson

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This man was famous for his sonnets:

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William Shakepeare

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Robert Burns was:

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Scottish

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This man wrote the famous, Don Juan

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George Gordon

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This poet wrote, Ode to A West Wind:

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Percy Shelley

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O Captain! My Captain! Was written for this man:

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Abraham Lincolm