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79 Cards in this Set
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1343-1400
Middle Ages |
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William Langland
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1332-1386
Middle Ages |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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1503-1542
Renaissance |
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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1517-1547
Renaissance |
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Edmund Spenser
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1552-1599
Renaissance |
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Christopher Marlowe
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1564-1593
Renaissance |
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William Shakespeare
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1564-1616
Renaissance |
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John Donne
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1572-1631
Renaissance |
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George Herbert
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1593-1633
Renaissance |
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Henry Vaughan
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1621-1695
Renaissance |
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Andrew Marvell
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1621-1678
Renaissance |
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John Milton
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1608-1674
Renaissance |
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John Dryden
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1631-1700
Restoration |
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John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
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1647-1680
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Aphra Behn
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1640-1689
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Jonathan Swift
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1667-1745
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Alexander Pope
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1688-1744
Restoration |
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Samuel Johnson
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1709-1784
Restoration |
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James Thompson
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1700-1748
Restoration |
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Thomas Gray
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1716-1771
Restoration |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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1730-1774
Restoration |
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Beowulf
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Unknown Anglo-Saxon author
Middle Ages |
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The Wanderer
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Unknown Middle Ages author
Middle Ages |
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The Wife's Lament
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Unknown Middle Ages author
Middle Ages |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Unknown Middle Ages author
Middle Ages |
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Middle Ages |
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The Vision of Piers Plowman
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William Langland
Middle Ages |
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Mystery Plays
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William Langland
Middle Ages |
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The Second Shepherd's Play
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William Langland
Middle Ages |
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Everyman
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William Langland
Middle Ages |
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Amoretti
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Edmund Spenser
Renaissance |
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The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
Renaissance |
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Sonnets 18, 29, 130
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William Shakespeare
Renaissance |
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The Flea
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John Donne
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The Sun Rising
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John Donne
Renaissance |
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The Indifferent
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John Donne
Renaissance |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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John Donne
Renaissance |
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Holy Sonnets 5, 10, 14
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John Donne
Renaissance |
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The Altar
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George Herbert
Renaissance |
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Easter Wings
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George Herbert
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The Collar
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George Herbert
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The World
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Henry Vaughan
Renaissance |
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To His Coy Mistress
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Andrew Marvell
Renaissance |
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Mac Flecknoe
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John Dryden
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
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John Dryden
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The Disappointment
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John Dryden
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A Description of a City Shower
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
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A Modest Proposal
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Jonathan Swift
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An Essay on Criticism
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Alexander Pope
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The Rape of the Lock
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Alexander Pope
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Eloisa to Abelard
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Alexander Pope
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas
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Samuel Johnson
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Rambler No. 4, No. 60
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Samuel Johnson
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I leave off, therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. |
Whoso list to hunt
Thomas Wyatt |
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away. |
Amoretti 75
Edmund Spenser Renaissance |
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So long as men can breathe or eyes cans see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. |
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare Renaissance |
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Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou denies me is |
The Flea
John Donne Renaissance |
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She is all states, and all princes I,
Nothing else is. |
The Sun Rising
John Donne Renaissance |
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Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne Renaissance |
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. |
Holy Sonnet 10
John Donne Renaissance |
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Batter my heart, three-personed God
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Holy Sonnet 14
John Donne Renaissance |
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Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady were no crime... But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near |
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell Renaissance |
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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose moral taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heav'nly muse... |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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I thence
Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar ...while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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The mind in its own place, and in itself
Can make me a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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I formed them free, and free they must remain.
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Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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For contemplation he and valor formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him. |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Though Eden took their solitary way. |
Paradise Lost
John Milton Renaissance |
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And 'tis this very reason I despise;
This supernatural gift, that makes a mite Think he's the image of the infinite. |
A Satire against Reason and Mankind
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester Reformation |
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All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey |
Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden Restoration |
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What dire offense from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing... |
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope Restoration |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. |
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope Restoration |
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But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind. |
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Samuel Johnson Restoration |
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Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray Restoration |
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. |
The Deserted Village
Oliver Goldsmith |
