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21 Cards in this Set
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8th-2nd c BC
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Greek Classical and Hellenistic periods; The Iliad, Oedipus Rex, Lysistrata, Aritstole's Organum, The Republic
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1st c BC to 2nd c AD - 5th c. AD
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Roman Classical period; Cicero's letters to Atticus, Brutus, Quintus, and others; The Aeneid; Metamorphoses; Polybus' universal history of Rome; Plutarch's "Life of Pericles;" Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods
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13th-15th c
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Renaissance; period during which learning and teh arts flourished in Europe; The Divine Comedy; Canterbury Tales; Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
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17th c France
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French Neoclassical period; Racine's Adnromagque, de la Fontaine's Fables choisies, mises en vers (selected fables versified
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17th-18th c England
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English Neoclassical period; Dryden's The Conquest of Granada and "Alexander's Feast," Swift's The Battle of the Books and Gulliver's Travels, Pope's The Rape of the Lock
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18th-19th c Germany
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German Neoclassical period; Lessing's Zur Geschichte und Literatur (On History and Literature), von Schiller's Don Carlos, Goethe's Faust
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450-1066 AD England
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Old English period; Beowulf
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1066-1550 England
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Canterbury Tales, More's Utopia, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Everyman
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1550-1625 England
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Macbeth and Hamlet; Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Edward II; Bacon's Reports; Spenser's The Faerie Queene
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1625-1660 England
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Walton's The Compleat Angler, Milton's "Lycida," and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
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1660-1780 England
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Neoclassical period; Dryden's The Conquest of Granada, Pepys' Memoirs of the Royal Navy
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1780-1840 England
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Romantic period; Keats' Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems; Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" and "Tam o'Shanter;" Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; Byron's Don Juan; Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey
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1840-1900 England
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Victorian period; Great Expectation; Tennyson's Poems, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese
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1900-1945 England
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Modernism; Yeats' In the Seven Woods, Remarques' All Quiet on the Western Front, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
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1945-present England
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Postmodernism; Nietzsche's The Antichrist, Orwell's 1984, Eliot's "The Waste Land"
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1630-1760 America
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Colonial period; Williams and Hooker's Bay Psalm Book, Poor Richard's Almanack, Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up in America, Edwards' The Freedom of the Will
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1760-1787 America
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Revolutionary period; Declaration of Independence; Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America; Freneau's The British Prison Ship, "The Wild Honeysuckle," "The Indian Burying Ground;" Tyler's The Contrast (1st comedy performed in early Am. theater); Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1st Am. novel)
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1828-1836 America
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Nationalist period; Leatherstocking Tales; Emerson's Nature, "The Over-Soul," "Compensation," and "Self-Reliance;" Irving's "Rip van Winkle" and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent; The Raven and Other Poems, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; Longfellow's Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Tales of a Wayside Inn (incl. "Paul Revere's Ride)
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1830-1860 America
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America Renaissance period; Dickinson's poems, Moby Dick, Whitman's "Oh, Captain, My Captain!" and Leaves of Grass; Thoreau's Walden
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1900-1945 America
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Modern period; Twain, London, Frost, Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "Hamlet and His Problems;" James' "Daisy Miller" and Washington Square; Parker's Enough Rope and Death Taxes
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1945-present America
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Contemporary; The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Beloved, The Catcher in the Rye, Updike's Rabbet, Run, The Bell Jar; Vidal's Lincoln
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