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36 Cards in this Set
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John Henry
Cardinal Newman 1801-1890 |
"Lead, Kindly Light" & other hymns
Tracts for the Times & other sermons…guided Oxford movement Essay on Miracles Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine Idea of a University Defined Apologia pro vita sua (greatest work; against Kingsley attack on Catholics) Grammar of Assent The Dream of Gerontius (only notable poem…later set to music by another |
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
1803-1849 |
The Improvisatore (3 stories in verse)
2 plays: The Bride's Tragedy and Death's Jest-Book Collected Poems (published by a friend after his death) |
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Walter Horatio Pater
1839-94 |
Studies in the History of the
Renaissance (established reputation) Marius the Epicurean Imaginary Portraits Appreciations Plato and Platonism The Child in the House Greek Studies Gaston de Latour |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-94 |
New Arabian Nights
An Inland Voyage (account of canoe trip in Belgium & France, 1st pub. bk) Treasure Island Prince Otto 2 best known: Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Requiem (famous poem) |
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William Butler Yeats
1865-1939 |
Mosada (first drama; magic fascinat)
The Wanderings of Oisin (intense nationalism of Young Ireland movemt) “Falling of Leaves," "When You Are Old," and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Plays: The Countess Cathleen Cathleen ni Houlihan The Land of Heart's Desire Deirdre The Celtic Twilight and The Secret Rose (prose tales of Irish legend |
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James Joyce
1882-1941 |
Ulysses (1 of greatest works in Engl.
utilizes many radical techniques) Dubliners (15 linked short stories treating squalid/sentimental lives of Dublin residents) A Portrait of the Artist of A Young Man Finnegans Wake (dark counterpart of "Bloomsday") |
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Virginia Woolf
1882-1941 |
The Waves (most experimental novel)
The Voyage Out (beginning work) Jacob's Room (innovative) Orlando (innovative) The Common Reader (critical essays, contains some of her finest pieces) A Haunted House (short story) |
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Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923 |
Bliss and The Garden Party (early
works brought fame) The Dove's Nest Something Childish |
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Robert Graves
1895-1985 |
Good-bye to All That (outspoken book
on his war experience established reputation) I, Claudius and Claudius the God (unorthodox novels of Roman history) King Jesus and Homer's Daughter (fictionalized reappraisals of history and legend) Iliad (translated) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-61 |
Poems (brought immediate fame &
attention of Robert Browning) Sonnets from the Portuguese (greatest poetry inspired by her own love) Casa Guidi Windows (Italian liberty) Aurora Leigh (novel in verse) |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
1811-63 |
Book of Snobs
Vanity Fair (satirical panorama of upper-middle-class London life & manners; many fascinating characters ie Becky Sharp: clever, unscrupulous, yet extremely appealing) Pendennis (partly biographical novels) English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (series of lectures) |
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Charles Dickens
1812-1870 |
The Posthumous Papers of the
Pickwick Club (made Dickens & characters like Sam Weller famous) Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby A Christmas Carol David Copperfield (own fav; partly autobio.) Bleak House A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations The Mystery of Edwin Drood (last novel) |
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Robert Browning
1812-89 |
Pauline, his first poem
Paracelsus & Sordello (won recognition) Plays: Strafford and A Blot in the 'Scutcheon Bells and Pomegranates (included "My Last Duchess" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” both dramatic monologues) The Ring and the Book |
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Anthony Trollope
1815-82 |
The Warden (first to win fame; first in
series of Barsetshire novels—fame rests upon this collection) The Claverings Phineas Finn The Way We Live Now The Prime Minister The American Senator |
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Charlotte Bronte
1816-55 |
Jane Eyre
Shirley The Professor Villette Published joint collection of poems under assumed names w/sisters Emily & Anne |
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Emily Bronte
1818-48 |
Published joint collection of poems
under assumed names w/sisters Emily & Anne Wuthering Heights |
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Arthur Hugh Clough
1819-61 |
Ambarvalia (co.auth., short poems)
Amours de Voyage, a novel in verse Dipsychus, a rather amorphous satire |
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George Eliot
1819-80 |
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Scenes of Clerical Life Poetry: Brother Jacob The Spanish Gypsy (dramatic poem) Agatha A Minor Prophet The Death of Moses |
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Anne Bronte
1820-49 |
Agnes Gray
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
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Arnold Matthew
1822-88 |
The Strayed Reveller
Empedocles on Etna (poems; disliked, so he withdrew them) Poems (verse from earlier volumes as well as new poems, including "The Scholar Gypsy" and "Sohrab and Rustum.") Poems: Second Series Merope: A Tragedy New Poems (included "Thyrsis," his famous elegy on Arthur Hugh Clough |
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William Wilkie Collins
1824-89 |
The Woman in White and The
Moonstone (mystery novels) Armadale (widely criticized, yet still enjoyed) |
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(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (these children’s stories brought fame psyd: John Tenniel) The Hunting of the Snark (humorous verse) Other writings experimenting in different style were considered failures |
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Thomas Hardy
1840-1928 |
Desperate Remedies and A Pair of
Blue Eyes (first 2 formative works met with small success) Far From the Madding Crowd (first widely acclaimed popular writing won his literary success) Major works: The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure (2 masterpieces |
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Henry James
1843-1916 |
The American
Daisy Miller The Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians The Princess Casamassima The Tragic Muse Latest/Greatest: The Wings of the Dove The Ambassadors The Golden Bowl |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844-89 |
"The Wreck of the Deutschland”
"God's Grandeur" "The Windhover" "The Leaden Echo" "The Golden Echo." |
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Oscar Wilde
1854-1900 |
Poems (well received)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Vera (drama) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Two fairy tales: The Happy Prince and The House of Pomegranates Novel: Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Plays: Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936 |
Departmental Ditties
Barrack-Room Ballads, Plain Tales from the Hills and Soldiers Three (short stories of Anglo-Indian life) The Light That Failed (novel) Children’s stories: The Jungle Book and Second Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and Captains Courageous, Puck of Pook's Hill “If” (famous poem |
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John Stuart Mill
1806-73 |
A System of Logic
Principles of Political Economy On Liberty (dedicated to his wife upon her death) Utilitarianism Auguste Comte and Positivism |
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Baron Alfred Tennyson,
Tennyson 1809-92 |
The Devil and the Lady (first play)
Poems by Two Brothers (1827). Timbuctoo (prizewinning poem) Poems, Chiefly Lyrical The Princess In Memoriam (death of close friend) Idylls of the King (somber ethical epic of glory & downfall of King Arthur) Maud (monodrama) Enoch Arden Becket (most notable drama) Ballads and Other Poems Demeter and Other Poems |
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Edward Lear
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A Book of Nonsense
Nonsense Songs Laughable Lyrics |
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John Ruskin
1819-1900 |
Art theory: Modern Painters,
The Seven Lamps of Architecture, & The Stones of Venice Social reform: Sesame and Lilies, The Crown of Wild Olive, Time and Tide, & Fors Clavigera Praeterita (autobiography; written between lapses of insanity |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-82 |
“The Blessed Damozel” (regarded by
many as best poem) “The House of Life" (1 of finest) Notable: "Sister Helen" (ballad) 2 Notable Dramatic monologues: "Jenny" and "A Last Confession." Dante and His Circle |
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George
Meredith 1828-1909 |
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (first
distinguished work) Notable novels: Evan Harrington The Adventures of Harry Richmond The Egoist Diana of the Crossways Famous critical essay: On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit |
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
1830-94 |
"Uphill"
"When I Am Dead, My Dearest." Sing-Song Goblin Market and Other Poems Best works: The Prince's Progress A Pageant and Other Poems |
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William Morris
1834-96 |
Poems: The Defence of Guenevere
and Other Poems The Life and Death of Jason The Earthly Paradise Political Prose: The Dream of John Ball News from Nowhere |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837-1909 |
Atalanta in Calydon (poetic drama
modeled on Greek tragedy) A Song of Italy Songs before Sunrise Atalanta 3 Closet dramas: Chastelard, Bothwell, Mary Stuart Tristram of Lyonesse (long poem presents intensely passionate vision of medieval legend |
