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considered the oldest English work. by Caedmon
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Caedmon's hymn
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Oldest work written in old English by an unknown author and written in heroic couplet. most prominent olde English work.
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Beowulf.
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Middle English
William Langland |
Piers Plowman
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Middle English
Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Canterbury tales
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Middle English
Sir Thomas Malory |
Morte d'Arthur...or....death of Arthur.
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Elizabethan Period
Sir Philip Sydney |
Astrophel and Stella, Defense of Poetry, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
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Elizabethan Period
Edmund Spencer |
The Faerie Queen, also wrote Amoretti
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets John Donne |
The Good-Morrow, The Canonization, and A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets George Herbert |
A Priest to the Temple (or The Country Parson)
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets Thomas Traherne |
Roman Forgeries, and Christian Ethicks
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets Abraham Cowley |
Tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe, an epic romance written in a six-line stanza
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets Richard Crashaw |
Music's Duel, and Wishes to his supposed Mistress
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Elizabethan Period
Metaphysical Poets Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, and the Country House Poem, "Upon Appleton House".
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Ben Johnson
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worked under Shakespeare, works include, To Penhurst, To the Memory of my Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and Volpone
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John Milton
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puritan writer, wrote, Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, and Areopagetica
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Elizabethan Period
Cavalier Poets Thomas Carew |
A Rapture, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne, and To Saxham
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Elizabethan Period
Cavalier Poets Sir John Suckling |
Ballade upon a Wedding
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Elizabethan Period
Cavalier Poets Richard Lovelace |
To Althea, From Prison
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Elizabethan Period
Cavalier Poets Edmund Waller |
wrote poetic tributes to both Oliver Cromwell and Charles II also, Go, lovely Rose!
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Elizabethan Period
Cavalier Poets Lord Herbert |
De Veritate
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Christopher Marlow
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The passionate Shepard to his love, the Jew of Malta, and Dr. Faustus. he was a master at blank verse.
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Was Christopher Marlow the best dramatist before Shakespeare?
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Yes
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Shakespeare
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Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Henry 5th, and much ado about nothing.
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The Restoration Period is also called the what.
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Augustine Period.
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John Dryden what did he write. name two out of five
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"Annus Mirabilis”
“Mac Flecknoe” “The Conquest of Granada” “Absalom and Achitophel” “All for Love” |
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Aphra Behn was a English poet and a female. what was her major novel.
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Ooronoko.
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Samuel Pepys was know for writing what.
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He was known for writing in his Journal. which he did not intend to publish. but nevertheless it was because of his attention to detail.
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John Bunyan wrote what else besides Pilgrims progress?
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The life and Death of Mr Badman.
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Alexander pope wrote what?
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The Rape of the Lock, and Essay on Criticism.
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Jonathan swift wrote what?
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the two most popular are. Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.
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What did Daniel Defoe write? besides Robinson Crusoe.
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Moll Flanders.
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William Blake is know for what works?
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"Tyger, Tyger," "The Lamb" and also wrote Songs of Innocence.
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Robert Burns wrote what else besides To a Mouse and To a Daisy?
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The Cotter's Saturday Night, and Hallowe'en
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Samuel Richardson wrote what?
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Pamela
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Henry Fielding wrote what famous work considered one of the greatest novels written in English?
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Tom Jones
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Jane Austen wrote what besides "Emma"?
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"Pride and Prejudice," and also "Sense and Sensibility"
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Romantic Period focused on what?
Time was 1789-1832 |
Movement away from country living toward cities.“Practical enslavement” of the worker. Societal shifts: French and American revolutions, rapid advance of industrialism
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Romantic Period
what did this author write William Wordsworth |
Lyrical Ballads, and Magnum Opus
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Romantic Period
what did this author write Samuel Coleridge |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan
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Romantic Period
what did this author write Lord Byron |
Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving
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Romantic Period
what did this author write Percy Bysshe Shelly |
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, Prometheus Unbound
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Romantic Period
what did this author write John Keats |
Ode to a Grecian Urn....has the famous Quote, "beauty is truth,truth beauty..."
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Romantic Period
William and Mary Lamb wrote Tales from Shakespeare. What did only William write about the Odyssey. |
The Adventures of Ulysses, this is the story of the Odyssey for younger readers.
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Romantic Period
what did this author write Sir Walter Scott |
Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake.
Both of these works hint at Robin Hood |
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Romantic Period
Emily Bronte wrote what? |
Wuthering Heights
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Romantic Period
Charlotte Bronte wrote what? |
Jane Eyre
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What Bronte sister wrote during the romantic period, Agnes Grey
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Anne Bronte
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The Victorian Period.
was named after which Queen |
Queen Vitoria. Duh that was easy....
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The Victorian Period.
Alfred Tennyson wrote what? |
Ulysses, Lotos-eaters, and Charge of the light Brigade.
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The Victorian Period.
Robert Browning wrote the following besides Dramatis Personae” and “The Ring and the Book” |
She walks in Beauty. Also wrote poems including “Home-Thoughts, From Abroad” and “The Pied Piper of Hamlin”
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Did the Victorian Period return to traditional morals.
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Yes
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The Victorian Period.
Elizabeth Browning married to Robert Browning wrote what famous works? |
Best known for writing “Sonnets from the Portuguese”—a collection of 44 poems about her love of Robert
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The Victorian Period. what did this recluse write Dante Rossetti?
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Co-founder of Pre-Raphaelites, and
wrote The Blessed Damozel and The Portrait, |
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The Victorian Period.
Christina Rossetti Sister to the recluse Dante. wrote what? |
"Goblin’s Market and Other Poems”
“The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems," |
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The Victorian Period. what did Charles Dickens write besides Oliver Twist?
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A Tale of Two city's, Great Expectations, and The Pickwick Papers
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The Victorian Period.
William Thackeray wrote about something in Pilgrims Progress what was it? |
Vanity Fair
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The Victorian Period.
What was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans. |
George Eliot
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The Victorian Period.
What Did George Eliot write? |
Silas Mariner.
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The Victorian Period.
George Shaw wrote what? |
The Devils Disciple. which was a famous play.
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The Victorian Period.
Oscar Wilde wrote what? |
The Importance of Being Earnest. which was A comical play.
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Modern Period fell back into what kind of morals. along with new ways of seeing (and making sense of) the world
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Loose morals.
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Modern Period.
Rudyard Kipling wrote what besides The jungle book? |
Stalky and Co, Just So Stories, and Kim
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Who was the first English writer to receive the noble prize in literature?
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Rudyard Kipling, he was also the youngest.
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Modern Period.
E.M. Forester wrote what besides where angles fear to tread? |
Maurice(where he came out of the closet) A Room with a View”
“Howard’s End” “A Passage to India" |
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Modern Period.
Virginia Woolf killed herself, was a feminist writer and wrote what? |
A room of ones own,The Lighthouse” and “The Waves,"
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Modern Period.
James Joyce wrote what famous work? |
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.Also pioneered Stream-of-Consciousness style of writing.
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Modern Period.
Aldous Huxley wrote what famous works? |
"Brave New World", "Crome Yellow”
“Point Counter Point” “Eyeless in Gaza" |
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Is Brave New World, Aldous Huxleys most famous work?
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Yea verily, or yes
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Modern Period
George Orwell wrote what? |
1984 and animal farm
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famous quote: “Big brother is watching" who said this
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Geoge Orwell
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Modern Period.
William Yeats wrote what? |
"Sailing to Byzantium" Also considered the founding father of modern poetry.Also wrote the winding stair.
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Modern Period.
T.S. Eliot wrote what else besides the Wasteland. |
"The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock”
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" |
