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38 Cards in this Set
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addressing mourning, iambic tetrameter, ABBA
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Tennyson, In Memoriam
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epic poem of a fallen woman; changes in tone and tortured syntax
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Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
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fuck that shit
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Meredith, "Modern Love"
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OMG prose.
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George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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medieval queen gets herself to a nunnery; blank verse
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Tennyson, "Guinevere"*;
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medieval queen doesn't care what anyone else thinks. three lines per stanza, iambic tetrameter, ABA
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Morris, "Defence of Guenevere,"
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Woman witnesses her lover's decapitation. Iambic tetrameter, rhyming couplets
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Morris, "Haystack in the Floods"
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Prostitute talks about her life. Blank verse.
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Augusta Webster, "A Castaway"
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A man projecting about the life of a prostitute. Iambic tetrameter, rhyming couplets
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D. G. Rossetti, "Jenny,"
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Description of a heavenly woman. tetra/trimeter; ABCBDB
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D. G. Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel,"
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yay, nature. Iambic tetrameter, AAAA BBBB etc.
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D. G. Rossetti, "The Woodspurge"
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Expounds on the beauty of imperfection. Sees the thoughtless worker as a slave.
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Ruskin, from Modern Painters; "The Nature of Gothic" (from Stones of Venice)
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Art by the people and for the people as a joy to the maker and the user, and essential to life as humans.
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Morris, "The Beauty of Life"
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dramatic monologue of a monk who paints reality, not "the soul." Blank verse.
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Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi,"
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Dramatic monologue of a faultless painter bent to the will of his wife. Blank verse.
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Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
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The importance of choice and nonconformity to a successful society.
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Mill, from On Liberty, Chapter 3, "Of Individuality"
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Criticism sees the object as it really is.
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Arnold, from "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
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OMG evolution.
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Darwin, from The Origin of Species
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OMG more evolution.
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Darwin, The Descent of Man
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Science? Sounds dramatic. Blank verse.
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Tennyson, "Lucretius"
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Enticing prose; hedonism under the guise of an arthistory text.
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Pater, from The Renaissance ("Preface," "Conclusion," and "La Gioconda"*)
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Musing on what could have been. ABABCCDD
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Swinburne, "The Triumph of Time,"
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Imagines Christianity casting a pall over the world. long lines, rhyming couplets.
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Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine,"
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O sister swallow...ABCABC
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Swinburne, "Itylus,"
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OMG violent lesbian sexytimes.
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Swinburne, "Anactoria"
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A casual, witty dialogue about the value of criticism.
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Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"
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Art for the sake of art itself; not to portray reality or its age.
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Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"
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A book can't be good or bad, it can only be well or badly-written.
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Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray;
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Description of a morning. Simple, pretty images. Iambic tetrameter, AABB.
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Wilde: "Impression du Matin"
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OMG more prose. With a lot of men.
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Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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There's no point in teaching natives anything native to them. England is the best at everything.
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Macaulay, from "Minute on Indian Education";
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The benefits of imperialism and colonization of foreign lands.
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Gladstone, from "Our Colonies"
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"A prospect is now before us of opening Africa for commerce and the Gospel."
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Livingstone, from Cambridge Lecture No 1
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Terrible colloquial speech. You can't miss it.
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Kipling, "Gunga Din,"
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A call to imperialism, in mostly imperative statements. Iambic trimeter.
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Kipling, "The White Man's Burden,"
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Meant to be a hymn. "lest we forget!" ABABCC.
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Kipling, "Recessional"
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An adventurous story of empire. Prose.
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Kipling, "The Man Who Would Be King"**
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Wit. A lot of wit.
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Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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