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20 Cards in this Set
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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The Canterbury Tales, Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord
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1809-92, The Eagle (He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.), Poems (most successful), In Memorium (for Friend Arthur Hallam), "Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields"
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Donne, John
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(religious symbolism and elaborate metaphors) Death be not proud. The Calme, A Hymn to God our Father, Confined Love, The Good-Morrow, At Round Earth's imagined Corners
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Pope, Alexander
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An Essay on Criticism (a little learning is a dangerous thing), Sephyr
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Shakespeare
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b. 1564, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, Winter (“Tu-whit, tu-who!”A merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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Blake, William
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(Incorporated religious visions in his work) The Tiger, The Lamb (famous pair of Poems), Compilations: Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, The Sick Rose
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Nash, Ogden
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The Turtle
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cummings, e.e.
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(first letter lowercase, time in French prison)
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Herrick, Robert
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b. 1591, (mostly English countryside and fictional women) To the virgins To Make Too Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles todayTomorrow will be dying), the Vine, Upon Julia's Voice(so smooth, so sweet, so silverly is thy voice
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Frost, Robert
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1874-1963 The Road not Taken The Pasture, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (And miles to go before I sleep.), Acquainted with Night, Fire and Ice, Home Burial (one of longest), Snowy Evening
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Dickenson, Emily
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(each poem known by first line, no titles, 10 published while alive, 160 posthumously) Much (Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye, Much sense, the starkest madness. ‘Tis the majority In this, as all, prevail: Assent, and you are sane; Demur,you’re straightway dangerous And handled with a chain.), I heard a fly buzz when I was dead, I felt a funeral in my brain
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Whitman, Walt
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(gay American, outbursts of thrilled emotion) Leaves of Grass (collection of 30), Sang this- Song of Myself,
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Thomas, Dylan
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Do not Go Gentle into that good night
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Atwood, Margaret
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(Candian poet and novelist) Landcrab, In the Secular Night, This is a photograph of me
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Dante
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Divine Comedy
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Eliot, TS
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Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland (compilation)
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Thoreau, Henry David
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On Civil Disobedience (“That government is best which governs least”), On Walden Pond, I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I went to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rest all that was not life and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.
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Shelley, Percy
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Ozymandias
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Sonnets from the Portugese, How do I love thee let me count the ways
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Byron, Lord
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(friend of Percy Shelley, incest, homo) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers(negative re: the Pope), The Dream, Don Juan
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