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15 Cards in this Set
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Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
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French playwright. One of the greatest masters of comedy in western literature. Don Juan. Le Misanthrope. L'Ecole des femmes. Tatuffe ou I'Imposteur.
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Corneille
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The Founder of French Tragedy. Le Cid. Cinna. Polyeucte.
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Racine
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Andromaque. Phedre
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Voltaire
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French enlightenment. Influenced important thinkers of the American, and French Revolutions.
Candide Lettres Philosophiques |
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John Dryden
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Marriage a la mode
All for Love Absalom and Achitophel English poet |
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Alexander Pope
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Translation of Homer
A master of the Heroic Couplet An Essay on Criticism ("A little learning is a dangerous thing." An Essay on Man The Rape of the Lock |
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels
A modest Porposal (for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland being a burden to their parents or country, and making them beneficial to the public) |
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Thomas Gray
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English Poet
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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Samuel Johnson
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British. Dictionary of the English Language. Shakespeare. The lives of the English Poets
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Robert Burns aka "The Bard"
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National Poet of Scottland. Inspiration for Liberalism and Socialism.
Auld Lang Syne The Jolly Beggars |
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Samuel Richardson
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English Novelist.
Pamela |
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Henry Fielding
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Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones Provoked the introduction of censorship in theatres with his political satire. |
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Jane Austen
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English Novelist
Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Northanger Abby Persuasion |
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Sir Walter Scott
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Est. the form of the Historical novel in Britain.
The Lady of the Lake. Waverly Ivanhoe Kenilworth |
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Gothe and Klinger
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"Storm and Stress" movement
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