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Sons of Innocence, Songs of Experience
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William Wordsworth, 1800
Subject: Lucy, of the "Lucy Poems": "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known," "Three Years She Grew," "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," and "I Traveled Among Unknown Men" Theme: similar to Gray's "Elegy"; death of one lovely person unknown to larger society SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! --Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! |
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Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience
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William Blake (1757-1827)
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful / symmetry?" |
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The Miller's Tale
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
A cuckold is tricked into sleeping on his roof in a washtub while his wife consorts with various suitors. |
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The Wife of Bath
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
A knight in King Arthur's court rapes a woman, punished to death, but queen intercedes, sends him on quest to find out what women want. He sees 24 ladies dancing; an old hag asks for a request in exchange for the answer he seeks; is pardoned; women want to have sovereignty over husband and mastery; hag takes him as husband; she gives choice, he chooses whatever would bring most honor and she becomes fair and faithful. |
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaunticleer and the Fox, beast fable. Chaunticleer the rooster is kidnapped by Sir Russel, a sweet-tongued fox. Chaunticleer gets away when the fox opens his mouth to brag. *Genre: Mock hero epic; parodies conventions of classic epic poetry |
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The Prioress' Tale
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Jews kill a Christian boy; he continues to sing after his throat is slit. |
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The Merchant's Tale
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Knight January is old and blind. HIs young wife, May, cheats on him with Damien, but when his sight is restored by Pluto, May says she did it to cure him. |
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The Pardoner's Tale
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Three drunks search for Death but they find a large treasure. They end up murdering each other. |
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Other Pilgrim Tales: Franklin, Reeve, Clerk, and Doctor
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1) Lover Aurelius, faithful wife Dorigen, Dorigen's husbnad Arveragus
2) Miller Simkin's wife and daughter enjoy clerks John and Alan, who he'd swindled. 3) Patient wife Griselda endures trials of jealous husband Marquis Walter 4) Woman Virginia has father killed to avoid evil judge Apius. |
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Troilus and Criseyde
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Setting: Troy, during the Trojan War Priam's warrior son Troilus scornful of love, wounded by Love's arrow to love Criseyde; Pandare overhears him complain, helps Troilus meet her. Slow relationship build; Pandare arranges for a night together; her father arranges for her to leave Greece, they separate; she asks protection from Diomede, she forgets him, Troilus finds a brooch he gave her on him, tries to kill him. *Poetry: Rhyme Royal, seven-line stanzas ababbcc |
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Piers Plowman
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Author: William Langland, c. 1380
8 allegorical visions where Will in dreams seeks out Truth. "In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, / I shoop me into shrouded as I a sheep were, / In habite as an here mite unholy of werkes, / Wente wide in this world wonders to here." *Genre: Poem, Alliterative verse |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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c. 1380
Genre: Alliterative Romance; Poem; verse stanzas (bob: very short; wheel: trimeter quatrain); ababa A Green Knight shows up at a New Year's party and issues a challenge. Anyone who desires can behead him, but he who fails must be beheaded. Gawain succeeds, but the knight re-heads himself. Gawain shows up for beheading, but the Green Knight spares him. |
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Le Morte D'Arthur
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Author: Sir Thomas Malory, 1470
Late Middle English; **Prose |
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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
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Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Response to Marlowe's poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" "If all the world and love were were young, / And truth in every shepherd's tongue, / These pretty pleasures might me move / To live with thee and be thy love." |
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Astrophel and Stella
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Sir Philip Sydney, 1580s
Genre: English Renaissance sonnet sequence Characters: the "star lover," and "star" as speaker and spoken-to; Reason, Love, Queen Virtue, Sleep, the Moon, Patience, Desire, Dawn, loyal, jealous, fool |
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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Sir Philip Sydney
Form: Double sestina, rare Pastoral combined with Hellenistic mood. Highly idealized version of the shepherd's life with stories of jousts, political treachery, kidnappings, battles, rapes. *Borrowed by Shakespeare for Gloucester subplot of Lear |
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A Defence of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sydney, 1583
Classical and Italian precepts on fiction; poetry combines history with ethics of philosophy, more effective than both; comments on Spenser and Elizabethan stage |
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The Sepheardes Calendar
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Edmund Spenser
Form: Pastoral allegory, various forms Characters: Colin Clout, Hobbinol, Rosalind |
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Edmund Spenser
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1. Spenserian Stanza: ababbcbcc; 8 iambic pentameter, 1 hexameter (alexandrine)
2. Language is purposely antique; looks like an imitation of Chaucer |
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The Faerie Queen
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Allegory
Characters: Britomart, Duesa, Redcrosse, Una "Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, / As time taught her in lowly Shepeards weeks, / Am now efforts a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets sterne to change mine Oaten reeds, / And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; Whose prayses having slept in silence long, / Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds / To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: / Fierce wares and faithful loves shall moralize my song." |
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"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
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Christopher Marlowe, 1599
"Come live with me and be my love / And we will all the pleasures prove" |
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Tamburlaine the Great
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Christopher Marlowe
A Scythian shepherd, Tamburlaine, becomes a ferocious and successful conquerer in Asia Minor. Zenocrate is the main female character. |
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Dr. Faustus
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Christopher Marlowe
A sorcerer sells his soul in return for power. He is served and persecuted by Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Mephistopheles. |
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Characters in Romeo and Juliet
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Genre: tragedy
Romeo, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Juliet's Nurse, Benvolio, Mercutio, Tybalt |
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The Tempest
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Shakespeare
Comedy, romance Alonso's boat shipwrecked; Prospero usurped by Antonio, enslaves Caliban; Ferdinand marries Miranda; fairy Ariel freed, Caliban forgiven; sailors go home. |
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Shakespeare
Comedy Characters: Baptista, Biance, Kate, Petruccio; Lucentio, Grumio, Hortensio, Tranio, Vincentio Baptista has two daughters; Kate needs to marry before Bianca, but resists; Petruccio woos her, makes her the best wife in the play |
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Richard III
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Shakespeare
History Richard Duke of Glocuester kills George, imprisons Edward's children. Edward dies and Richard crowned king. He murders two princes, wants to marry Elizabeth. Killed in battle by Henry who becomes Henry VII. |
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Names in Genesis
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Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, people of Shem (tower of Babel), Abraham and Isaac and Sarah and Ishmael
Nimrod, Ham, Lot and wife, Sodom and Gomorrah, Jacob (Israel), Esau (Edam), Joseph, Judah |
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Names and Concepts in Exodus
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Aaron, golden calf, ark of the covenant, manna, "Eye for an eye...," Mt. Sinai, ram's blood, casting down of the first two tablets
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Samuel and Kings
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First Kings of Israel: Saul, David, Solomon (Absolom rebels: ref. in John Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!)
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New Testament
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Four Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke, John
ref. Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress |
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"To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare"
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Ben Johnson (1623)
"He was not of an age, but for all time!" |
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Julia Poems
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Robert Herrick (1648)
"Upon Julia's Breasts," "Upon Julia's Clothes," "The Night Piece, to Julia" *Look for the name. |
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"To His Coy Mistress"
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Andrew Marvell, 1681
- Cavalier poet Theme: make the most of your short time on earth "But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity." |
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"The Canonization"
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John Donne
"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love; / Or chide my palsy, or my gout; / My five grey hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout; / With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve" |
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"The Flea"
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"Mark but this flea, and mark in this, / How little that which thou deniest me is; / It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee; / And in this flea our two bloods mingled be."
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"The Sun Rising"
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John Donne
Aubade: poem about lovers separating at dawn "Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost though this, / Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?" |
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Holy Sonnet XIV
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John Donne
abbaabbacdcdee "Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you / As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; / That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend / Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new." |
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"Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
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Thomas Gray (1751)
meditation upon death without fame or recognition of one's gifts "Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." |
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton (1667)
Form: poetry, blank verse *Read and be able to recognize grammar, cadence, syntax. |
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Comus
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John Milton
Form: masque Attempted seduction of a young girl by supernatural being Comus. She stands firm, her brothers rescue her. |
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Areopagitica
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John Milton (1644)
Form: Prose Argues in favor of free press through classical and religious allusions. |
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Lycidas
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John Milton (1637)
Form: Pastoral elegy for Edward King; irregular rhythms and rhymes Shepherd mourns his drowned friend, Lycidas, alluding to the immortal fame of the poet. Shepherd as priest. |
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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John Bunyan
Genre: prose Allegory of the believer's journey toward redemption. Christian slogs through life, passing places like the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair on his way to the Celestial City. |
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Absalom and Achitophel
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John Dryden
Heroic couplets A political allegory that uses biblical figures and events to stand in for a political crisis current in Dryden’s time Names: Absalom, Achitophel, King David |
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Mac Flecknoe
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John Dryden
Mock epic poem, heroic couplets Satirical attack on Thomas Shadwell, throne of dullness; grandiose language on trivial, mundane matters. |
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Restoration Comedy
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Comedies of language and manners; farce; tension between accepted social codes of behavior toward sex and marriage; "war between the sexes"
William Wycherley: The Country Wife (1675) Featuring Mr. Horner, Mr. Pinchwife, Sir Jasper Fidget, Mrs. Squeamish, and Mrs. Dainty Fidget George Etherege’s The Man of Mode (1676) Featuring Mr. Dorimant, Sir Fopling Flutter, and Mrs. Loveit William Congreve: The Way of the World (1700), and Irish dramatist Featuring Millamant (a woman), Mirabell (a man), Mr. Fainall, Lady Wishfort, Foible (a woman), and Mincing (a woman) Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal (1777) Featuring Sir Peter Teazle, Maria, Lady Sneerwell, Sir Benjamin Backbite, and Charles Surface Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726): Lilliput, tiny; Brobdingnag, large; Laputa, flying island; The Struldburgs, unhappy immortals wishing to die; Houyhnhnms, intelligent, clean horses; Yahoos, idiotic, violent people) |
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The Rape of the Lock
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Alexander Pope (1712)
Form: mock heroic epic; epic invocation, epic feast, epic battle, interference of the gods, epic simile; satire Real life problem, impertinent haircut by Lord Petre to Arabella Fermor "What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, / What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things" |
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The Dunciad
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Alexander Pope
Mock epic, heroic couplets Savage assault on bad poetry, particularly against Colley Cibber, poet laureate of England. Coronation ceremony of Byaes as poet laureate of Dulness ultimately prevail over arts and sciences. |
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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
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1709-1784, and 1740-1795
author and biographer "The Vanity of Human Wishes," The Lives of English poets, The Rambler (journal), first modern English Dictionary, Rasselas Life of Johnson: sympathetic, 18th century style, genial; witty conversationalist, deep melancholy |
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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Laurence Stern, 1760
Influenced by Don Quixote, Locke, Pope, Swift Walter and Toby "I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;...I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me." "writing, when properly managed, is but another name for conversation." |
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The Gothic Novel
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1764-1860
First: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto Popular: Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho; supernatural elements have real-world explanations |
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Characters: Jane Eyre, Mrs. Reed (adoptive aunt), Mr. Brocklehurst (inhumane, runs boarding school), Miss Temple (nice headmistress), Helen Burns (friend, dies of typhoid fever), Mr. Rochester (proposes, already married to Bertha Mason who dies in a fire, then marries him), inherits fortune, has a son |
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Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte, 1847
Catherine and Heathcliff, narrated by Lockwood, Isabella and Edgar (foils) Wuthering heights is the story of two childhood lovers, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, who grow up on the Yorkshire Moors. When Catherine marries another man, Edgar Linton, Heathcliff attempts to take revenge on the entire Linton and Earnshaw families. |
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Jane Austen
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1775-1817
Sense and Sensibility: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, Lucy Steele, Edward Ferris, John Willoughby, Colonel Brandon Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley, George Wickham Mansfield Park: Bertrams of Mansfield Park, Fanny Price Mrs. Norris Emma: Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Knightley, Miss Bates, Frank Churchill, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax Northranger Abbey: Catherine Morland, the Allens, Henry Tilney, John Thorpe; parody of Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho Persuasion: Sir Walter, Elizabeth, and Anne Elliot; Frederick Wentworth, Kellynch Hall (manor) |
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19th Century Essayists
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c. 1800-1900
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Sartor Resartus: outward/inward appearances; Professor Teufelsdrockh, Weissnichtwo, Everlasting Yea and No, the Wanderer John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1801-1890): Apologia Pro Vita Sua: switch from Anglicanism to Catholicism; Idea of a University "the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery of experiment and speculation." John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): social theorist and reformer; Autobiography: melancholia; On Liberty: rights of individuals must be protected against the "tyranny of the majority"; What is Poetry?": expression of the self to another; The Subjection of Women Matthew Arnold (1822-1888): attacks "philistinism," tacky middle-class tastes, "sweetness and light," Culture and Anarchy, from Swift's Battle of the Books John Ruskin (1819-1900): art critic; "pathetic fallacy": projection of the author's sentiment onto an inanimate object; The Stones of Venice: architectural study, reading of economic, social, moral history |
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"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
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William Wordsworth, 1800
Subject: Lucy, of the "Lucy Poems": "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known," "Three Years She Grew," "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," and "I Traveled Among Unknown Men" Theme: similar to Gray's "Elegy"; death of one lovely person unknown to larger society |
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Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience
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William Blake (1757-1827)
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful / symmetry?" |
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Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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William Wordsworth, 1799
Constituents of new poetry: realistic language; "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility" |
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John Keats
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1795-1821
"Upon First Looking into Chapman's Homer" Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Odes |
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
"Water, water every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." |
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Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- imagination as supreme faculty of the human intellect; cultivation as prerequisite and aim of poetry |
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"Ulysses"
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1842
Odysseus in Ithaca, old and bored; contemplates sailing with companions off "beyond the sunset" because "Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. / Death closes all; but something ere the end, / Some work of noble note, may yet be done, / Not unbecoming men that strove with gods." Also, "In Memoriam A.H.H.": "Nature, red in tooth and claw" Also, "Break, break, break" |
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Gerard Manly Hopkins
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1844-1889
sprung rhythm "The Windhover": "I caught this morning morning's minion, king- / dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding / Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding..." "Pied Beauty": "GLORY be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;" |
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Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw, 1913
Mythical sculptor who fell in love with his own creation; Professor Henry Higgins wagers he can turn Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into toast of London society by teaching her how to speak upper-class; he falls for her, she rejects him, she marries a young aristocrat. |
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W.H. Auden
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1907-1973
"Musee de Beaux Arts" "In Memory of W.B. Yeats": "What instruments we have agree / The day of his death was a dark cold day" |
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Dylan Thomas
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1914-1953
"Do not go gentle into that good night" "Fern Hill": "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs / About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, / The night above the dingle starry, / Time let me hail and climb" |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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E.M. Forster (1905)
Characters: Caroline Abbot, Lilia Herriton |
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Beowulf
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c. 750
heroic epic Beowulf slays Grendel then Grendel's mother and becomes king. He slays a dragon, but is killed, and Wiglaf becomes king. |
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The Knight's Tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Arcite and Mars fight Palamon and Venus for Emily. Arcite wins, but dies, and Palamon marries Emily. |
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A Room with a View
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E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
Characters: Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy Honeychurch, Mr. Emerson, George Emerson, Mr. Beebe, Eleanor Lavish, Cecil Vyse |
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Howards End
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EM Forster
Characters: Margaret, Helen, and Tibby Schlegel; Charles, Paul, and Evie Wilcox |
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A Passage to India
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EM Forster
Characters: Adela Quested, Dr. Aziz, The Marabar Caves |
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The Road to Colonus
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EM Forster
Characters: Mr. Lucas, Ethel Lucas |
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Dubliners
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James Joyce (1882-1941)
"The Dead": Kate and Julia Morkin--throw Epiphany party; Lily, maid, insulted by Gabriel Conroy; Gabriel Conroy, main character, Gretta Conroy, wife; Miss Ivors, Irish patriot; Michael Furey, Gretta's first love |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce
Story of Stephen Daedalus "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo..." "April 26. Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order...Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience..." |
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Ulysses
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James Joyce
Story of Leopold Bloom (Odysseus), Molly Bloom (Penelope), and Stephen Daedalus (Telemachus) "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather..." "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes..." "...first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes." |
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville, 1851
Biblical-Shakespearean style of Ahab's monologues Characters: Ahab, Ishmael, Quequeb, Starbuck |
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Billy Budd
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Herman Melville
Handsome sailor undone by his own goodness band the plottings of the repulsive Claggart. |
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"Bartleby the Scrivener"
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Herman Melville
Bizarrely alienated Bartleby, mantra, "I'd prefer not to" |
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Characters: Roger Chillingworth, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Pearl |
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The House of Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Characters: Hepzibah Pyncheon; Maule, Phoebe, Holgrave, Clifford Pyncheon Theme: sins of the father |
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The Blithedale Romance
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Characters: Miles Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla, Blithedale Farm |
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Emily Dickinson
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1830-1886
idiosyncratic use of dashes, unconventional capitalization; typically four or five lines, short clipped lines |
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Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), in Leaves of Grass, 1855
"I celebrate myself; / And what I assume you shall assume; / For every atom belonging to / me, as good belongs to you." |
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Walt Whitman
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1819-1892
Brooklyn, newspaper work, travelled Atlantic seaboard; heavily influence by German metaphysical philosophers, Hindu texts, Emerson, and memorialized Lincoln in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain, My Captain" |
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"Chicago"
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Carl Sandberg 1878-1967
"Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders." |
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"The Fog"
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Carl Sandberg
"The fog comes fast / on little cat feet. / It sits looking / over harbor and city / on silent haunches / and then moves on." |
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e.e. cummings
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1894-1962
unorthodox capitalization and punctuation; love and nature, satire, individual's relationship with the masses and world "a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse / Me whether it's president of the you were say / or a jennelman name misder finger isn't / important whether it's millions of other punks" |
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Ezra Pound
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1885-1972
The Cantos: book-length, inclusion of Chinese characters, and quotes in European languages "The Lake Isle": light parody of Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" - " O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, / Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, / With the little bright boxes / piled up neatly upon the shelves" |
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"The Waste Land"
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TS Eliot (1888-1965), 1922
Five sections: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What The Thunder Said "April is the cruellest month, breeding..." |
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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TS Eliot, 1920
Features: allusions, disparate parts "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky" "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" "And indeed there will be time / To wonder, 'Do I dare?'" "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown" |
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"The Hollow Men"
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TS Eliot, 1925
"This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
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"Ash Wednesday"
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TS Eliot, 1930
- written after conversion to Anglicanism; traditional forms of melody and prosody "Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn." |
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TS Eliot, essays
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Objective Correlative (1919): found in "Hamlet and His Problems; the set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which will set a specific emotion in the reader
"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919): impersonal poetry, using tradition to elevate personal experience |
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"Anecdote of the Jar"
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Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. |
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"Mending Wall"
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Robert Frost 1874-1963
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: ................................... He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make food neighbors." |
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"Design"
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Robert Frost
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth-- Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-- A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite. |
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The Ambassadors
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Henry James (1843-1916)
Characters: Mr. Lambert Strether, the Newsomes, Chad, Waymarsh Maria Gostrey |
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The Beast in the Jungle
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Henry James
Characters, John Marcher (seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle"), May Bartram |
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James, 1881
Isabel Archer inherits a large fortune, and is beset by two Machiavellian expatriates, |
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Turn of the Screw
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Henry, James 1898
Ghost story; unnamed narrator listens to a manuscript read by a male friend from a former governess who is dead. Governess hired by man responsible for niece and nephew. Characters: Flora, Mrs. Grose, Miles, Miss Jessel, Quint |
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The Sound and the Fury
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William Faulkner, 1929
Four sections, each with its own narrator: Benjy (mentally disabled), Quentin Compson (as in Absalom! Absalom!), sister Caddy; incest, suicide |
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"A Rose for Emily"
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William Faulkner
Spinster Emily Grierson's odd relationship with father, lover Homer Barron, townspeople of Jefferson who gossip, secret: hiding Barron's body |
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940
Characters: Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway “He believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluted us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning – So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” |
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Ernest Hemingway
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1899-1961
The Sun Also Rises: Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley; impotence For Whom the Bell Tolls: Robert Jordan (International Brigades in Spanish-American War, explosives expert), Maria A Farewell to Arms: Lieutenant Frederic Henry in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley; Italy |
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Willa Cather
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1873-1947
My Antonia: immigrant families move out to Nebraska; Shimerdas family-Antonia, narrator Jim Burden Death Comes for the Archbishop: Bishop Jean Marie Latour |
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Edith Wharton
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1862-1937
The House of Mirth: Lily Bart, Lawrence Selden Ethan Frome: Zenobia, Mattie Silver The Age of Innocence: Newland Archer, May Welland, Countess Ellen Olenska |
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Clarissa Dalloway readies for a home party ; intimate, stream-of-consciousness; "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." |
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To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
The Ramsay family's two separate visits to the lighthouse; "nothing is merely one thing" Minor Characters: Lily Briscoe, Charles Tansley, Augustus Carmichael, Paul Rayley, Minta Doyle |
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A Room of One's Own
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Virginia Woolf
"All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." |
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Gertrude Stein
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(1874-1946)
*Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: includes third-person ref. to Stein Three Lives, 1909: three disconnected stories of women: "The Good Anna," "Melanctha," "The Gentle Lena" in Bridgepointe. |
