English Literature: Authors And Works #2

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Samuel Rutherford
(1600-1671)

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Lex, Rex (controversial/Treasonist)

Theologian and Controversialist

Calvanist

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John Milton
(1608-1674)

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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Poet

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Richard Baxter
(1659-1691)

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The Saints Everlasting Rest

Puritan Church Leader

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Henry Vaughan
(1621-1695)

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Astraea Redux, To His Sacred Majesty: a panegyric on his coronation

Welsh Metephysical Poet

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Dorothy Osborne
1627-1695

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Letters to Sir William Temple

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John Bunyan
1628-1688

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

Grace Abounding

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John Dryden
1631-1700

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Heroique Stanzas (Eulogy on
Cromwell’s death)

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Daniel Defoe
1660-1731

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Robinson Crusoe (brought enduring
fame)

The True-born Englishman
Captain Singleton (gay love story)
Moll Flanders
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
A Journal of The Plague Year
A Tour…Great Britain
The Political History of the Devil

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Matthew Prior
1664-1721

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City Mouse and Country Mouse

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Jonathan Swift
1667-1745

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Gulliver’s Travels (Political
analogies)

A Modest Proposal
A Journal to Stella
The Drapier’s Letters
The Battle of the Books
A Tale of a Tub
The Death of Mrs. Johnson (his
refusing lover)
Many, many works

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John Gay
1685-1732

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The Beggar’s Opera (best work)

Polly (sequel to above, censored)
Rural Sports (ded. Alexander Pope)
The Shepherd's Week (pastorals
drawn from Engl. rustic life)
What d'ye call it? (dramatic skit)
Three Hours after Marriage (grossly
indecent, unsuccessful)
Fables

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Alexander Pope
1688-1744

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Satirical verse; translation of Homer
(won his fame)

Rape of the Lock (famous poem)

The Pastorals (first major work)
An Essay on Criticism
Windsor Forest (Tory peace)

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James Thomson
1700-1748

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Liberty (dedicated to Prince of
Wales)

The Castle of Indolence
The Seasons (caused legal
dispute

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Samuel Johnson
1709-1784

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A Dictionary of the English
Language (best known work)

The Rambler (essays)
The Idler (better essays)
Rasselas (satirical novel)
Lives of the English Poet (final
greatest work)

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Thomas Gray
1716-1771

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Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard (lasting contribution to
lit heritage)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite
Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold
Fishes
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College

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Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774

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The Vicar of Wakefield (novel)

The Deserted Village (pastoral
poem written in memory of his
brother)
Plays: The Good-natur'd Man and
She Stoops to Conquer
The History of Little Goody Two
Shoes (Classic Children’s tale)
The Citizen of the World
The Traveller

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James Boswell
1740-1795

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Life of Johnson (biography of
Samuel Johnson)

A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Detailed and frank journals that
written for long periods of life
Works focus chiefly on others

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William Blake
1757-1827

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Poetical Sketches (only book
published conventionally during his
lifetime)

Songs of Innocence (1789) &
Songs of Experience (simple,
childlike, non-sentimental)
The Book of Thel
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The French Revolution
America Europe
The Book of Urizon
The Book of Los
Milton
Jerusalem

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Robert Burns
1759-1796

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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish
Dialect
"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton,"
"My Heart's in the Highlands,"
"John Anderson My Jo”
"Auld Lang Syne"
"Comin' thro' the Rye”
"Tam o' Shanter"
"The Jolly Beggars"

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William Lisle Bowles
1762-1850

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Fourteen Sonnets (won
extradorinary favor w/public &
Coleridge & Wordsworth)

The Spirit of Discovery
The Missionary of Andes
The Grave of Last Saxon
St. John in Patmos
Prose: Life of Bishop Ken
Coombe Ellen & St. Michael’s
Mount
The Battle of the Nile
The Sorrows of Switzerland

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William Wordsworth
1770-1850

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An Evening Walk

Leader of romantic movement

Descriptive Sketches
Lyrical Ballads (co: Coleridge;
manifesto for romanticism; modern
lang. of the people)
The Prelude (long;
autobiographical; published after
death)
Poems in Two Volumes
The Excursion

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Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832

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Bürger (translation of German
work)

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1st
major poem)
Marmion

The Lady of the Lake
Waverley (1st novel; great success;
wrote more in this series)

Ivanhoe

The Talisman

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834

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Lyrical Ballads (co: Wordsworth)

"Dejection: An Ode" (last of
greatest poems)

Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit
Biographia Literaria (accounts of
literary life & critical essays on phil.
and lit. sbjct)

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Robert Southey
1774-1843

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"The Battle of Blenheim"
"The Holly Tree"
Vision of Judgment (epic)
Nelson (biography)
Wesley (biography

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Charles Lamb
1775-1834

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Tales from Shakespeare

4 Unsuccessful plays
Specimens of English Dramatic
Poets
Essays of Elia

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Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864

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Gebir (epic poem)

Imaginary Conversations (large
prose work)
Pericles and Aspasia
Hellenics
Heroic Idylls

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Jane Austen
1775-1817

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Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Northanger Abby
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion

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Leight Hunt
1784-1859

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Examiner (weekly publication)

Liberal (failure)
Indicator (news)
Tatler (news)
Leigh Hunt's London Journal
“Story of Rimini” (love poem; only
one of consequence

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Thomas Love Peacock
1785-1866

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Nightmare Abbey (characters
based on Coleridge, Byron, &
Shelley)

Headlong Hall
Melincourt
Maid Marian
Crotchet Castle
Gryll Grange
Best poems (lyrics & drinking
songs) contained w/in writings

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Thomas De Quincey
1785-1859

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Confessions of an English Opium-
Eater (achieved literary eminence)
Prose: “On Murder Considered as
One of the Fine Arts”
“Suspiria de Profundis”
“On the English Mail-Coach”
“On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth”

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Baron George Gordon
Byron, Byron
1788-1824

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Poems on Various Occasions

Hours of Idleness

English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers (heroic couplets like
Pope, brought immediate fame)
The Giaour
The Bride of Abydos
The Corsair
Lara
The Siege of Corinth
Parisina
Don Juan

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822

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The Necessity of Atheism
(pamphlet co.)
Queen Mab (1st famous poem)
The Revolt of Islam
The Cenci
Prometheus Unbound
(masterpiece)
“Ode to the West Wind”
“To a Skylark”
“Ozymandias”

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George Darley
1795-1846

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Errors of Ecstasie (poem)

Lilian of the Vale (story)
Sylvia, or The May Queen (pastoral
drama)
Nepenthe (poem)
Mathematical books

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John Keats
1795-1821

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"I stood tip-toe upon a little hill,"

"Sleep and Poetry,"
“On First Looking Into Champan’s
Homer” (famous sonnet)
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“When I Have Fears That I May
Cease to Be”
Endymion (long poem)
Lamia
Isabella
The Eve of St. Agnes
Other Poems

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Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881

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Life of Schiller

Wilhelm Meister
Sartor Resartus (spiritual
autobiography)
French Revolution (poetic, not
factual)
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The
Heroic in History (lectures)

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797-1851

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Frankenstein

Valperga
The Last Man
Mathilda (partly autobiographical,
addresses taboo subject of incest)
Perkin Warbek
Falkner
Lodore