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wallace stevens
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clotted syllables
big words bits of nonsense "she sang beyon the genius of the sea/ the water never formed to mind or voice" |
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gertrude stein
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played with essences of words and short lines
a rose is a rose is a rose |
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carlyle
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hero-worship
victorian history and biography of great men foremost cultural critic was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. _signs of the time_ _on heroes and hero-worship_ |
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foremost art critic of the victorians
liked "turner" (painter of seascapes), the grotesque "grotesque" stones of venice venician architecture "pathetic fallacy" often related to carlyle |
ruskin
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theorized the university and the role of education and christianity
religion distinctions between gentleman and professional |
newman
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edward gibbon
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English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The History is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organized religion.
aligned with enlightenment |
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who talked about this stuff?
marxist radical aesthete embroidery, pattering passion started knebworth studio _news from nowhere_ marxist utopia |
morris
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forster
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english abroad in italy and india especially
english women abroad |
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lawrence
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sexuality and nature
dark impulses of male desire, especially with multiple partners or one's mother |
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kafka
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"joseph k"--incomplete names or mid-european names (gregor samsa)
set in europe bureaucracy caught up in dark and unexplained situations |
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beckett
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"vladimir"
"estragon" very spare language absurd in theatrical form quaquaversal |
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pynchon
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caricatured names "oedipa maas"
"tyrone slothrup" "mason and dixon" set in california zany language elaborate breakfast of crushed bananas elaborate acronyms |
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dubois
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"souls of black folk"
rich/majestic language opposition to douglass |
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barnes (djuna)
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dripping luxury, decadence, america but english also
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witty sentences, short sentences
jabs at men |
parker
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dos pasos
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documentary registrations of urban life
noises of newsprint office, ice cream vendor noises of life in an urban area USA |
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hemingway's locations
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paris
florida cuba spain |
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stein's locations
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ny
paris |
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faulkner's locations
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south
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william carlos william's locations
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NJ, patterson, mid-atlantic
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saul bellow's locations
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CHICAGO!
ny east coast (martha's vineyard) |
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melville location
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marine
manhattan |
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yeats/joyce location
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ireland
joyce--dublin |
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keats
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fantasy, nature, london
cockney accent |
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wilde's locations
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ireland
drawing rooms in/outside london |
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volpone
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or The Fox (in Italian: "Big Fox"), is a black comedy by Ben Jonson first
produced in 1606. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean comedies. * Volpone (the "Big Fox") – a greedy, childless Venetian nobleman * Mosca (the Fly) – his servant * Voltore (the Vulture) – a lawyer * Corbaccio (the Carrion Crow) – an avaricious old miser * Corvino (the Raven) – a merchant * Sir Politic - Would - Be; ridiculous Englishman. Probably based on Sir Henry Wotton, [1]. * Lady Would-Be (the parrot) hopeful Venetian prostitute, English lady |
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SYNESTHESIA
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a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as
when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. |
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evelyn waugh
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cruel, snobbish, humorous sentences _vile bodies_ (man eats his dead girlfriend) English writer, best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for more serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy, that are influenced by his own conservative and Catholic outlook. Many of Waugh's novels depict the British aristocracy and high society, which he savagely satirizes but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel accounts and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published. American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius the English have produced since George Bernard Shaw," while Time magazine declared that he had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century
that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world." |
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waugh's works
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Decline and Fall (1928): Satire of the upper classes and social climbers
* Vile Bodies (1930): Satire; adapted to the screen by Stephen Fry as Bright Young Things (2003) * Black Mischief (1932): Satire on Emperor Haile Selassie and his attempts to modernize his realm (Waugh was deeply critical of modernity and notions of rational progress). * A Handful of Dust (1934): Subtle critique of civilization set in English country house and British Guyana * Scoop (1938): the rush of war reporters to a thinly disguised Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) * Put Out More Flags (1942): Satire of the phony war and wartime sillinesses * Brideshead Revisited (subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) (1945): details the spiritual lives behind the facades of an aristocratic family and their friend, the protagonist; filmed as an ITV drama (1981) * The Loved One (1947) (subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy): about the excesses of a Californian funeral business * Helena (1950): Historical fiction about the Empress Helena and the founding of pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land, also a Catholic apologetic about the True Cross * Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (1953): A satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain, following the life of an arsonist released from prison. * The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) * Sword of Honour Trilogy o Men at Arms (1952) o Officers and Gentlemen (1955) o Unconditional Surrender (1961) |
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transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in the New England region of the united States of America in the early-to mid-19th century. It is sometimes called american Transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of the word transcendental.
Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church which was taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among their core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions. Prominent Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, as well as Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, Frederick Henry Hedge, Theodore Parker, George Putnam, and Sophia Peabody, the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne. For a time, Peabody and Hawthorne lived at the Brook Farm Transcendentalist utopian commune. |
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phillis wheatley
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the first African American female
writer to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773, two years before the American Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African American literature. Born in what is modern day Senegal or Gambia, she was captured and sold into slavery at the age of 5 or 6, Wheatley was brought to America in ca. 1760 where John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston, Massachusetts purchased her and where she converted to the Christian faith. The family of merchants made sure that the intellectually gifted girl received a good education, including study of Latin, Greek, mythology and history. She quickly mastered the English language. She published her first poem in 1767 at age 13 in the Newport Mercury. |
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metaphysical wit
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Wit in poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style, and was prevalent in the time of English playwright Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit". It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be
laugh-aloud funny; in fact wit can be a thin disguise for more poignant feelings that are being versified. English poet John Donne is the representative of this style of poetry. |
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poet
"defence of poetry" longest work: _arcadia_ he Arcadia, by far his most ambitious work, was as significant in its own way as his sonnets. The work is a romance that combines pastoral elements with a mood derived from the Hellenistic model of Heliodorus. In the work, that is, a highly idealized version of the shepherd's life adjoins (not always naturally) with stories of jousts, political treachery, kidnappings, battles, and rapes. As published in the sixteenth century, the narrative follows the Greek model: stories are nested within each other, and different story-lines are intertwined. |
philip sidney
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matthew arnold
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an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of the famed headmaster of Rugby School who was celebrated in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.
He wrote during the Victorian period (1837–1901), and is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, behind Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Robert Browning. his poems, on the whole, present the movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetic sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning. Yet because I have more perhaps of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, I am likely enough to have my turn, as they have had theirs." the bridge between romanticism and modernism |
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longinus
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a conventional name applied to a Greek teacher of rhetoric
or a literary critic who may have lived in the first or third century CE. Longinus is known only for his treatise On the Sublime a work which focuses on the effect of good writing |
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rimbaud
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet,
born in Charleville. * Poésies * Le bateau ivre (1871) * Une Saison en Enfer (1873) * Illuminations (1874) * Lettres |
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cotton mather
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1660-1730
persucuted witches prominant puritan minister set the nation's moral tone drew on the bible frequently 7-part book that was later drwan on by a variety of writers as describing the cultural significance of new england. |
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margaret drabble
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feminist novels
upperclass angry feminists in britain scathingly funny murdoch's sister |
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flannery o'connor
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southern (georgia)
likes birds southern gothic style, grotesque characters funny _a good man is hard to find_ |
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norweigen playwright
he largely founded the modern stage by introducing a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. drawing rooms women's lives european "hedda gabler" "pier gynt" reviewed/criticized victorian morality A Doll's House in 1879. The play is a scathing criticism of the traditional roles of men and women in Victorian marriage. masterful use of irony |
ibsen
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murdoch
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likes to write about retired older people (often actors) contemplating their lives by the sea
irish-born |
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thackerey
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long sentences
funny uses a cocksure girl's voice social-climbing BECKY SHARP napoleonic wars born in india; english novelist _vanity fair_ most famous barry lyndon in _the luck of barry lyndon_ catherine in _catherine_ He is best known now for Vanity Fair, with its deft skewerings of human foibles and its roguishly attractive heroine. often compared to dickens |
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dickens
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urban grime
criminals detailed caricatured description victorian language ("mr bumble was obviously of the mien") several sub-clauses in sentences Dickens's writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery — he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator" — are often popular. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy. |
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hardy
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poet and novelist
obviously rural british idiom/vernacular accents suggestinga dded or replaced syllables detailed landscapes heath _return of the native_ _tess of the d'ubervilles_ (sympathetic portrayal of the fallen woman) _far from the madding crowd_ partly real, partly dream setting of 'wessex' biblical names fused with english last names (like gabriel oak or jude fawley) descriptions of just-missed letters (like thru the post) strange, celestial conspiracy against man injured innocents |
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eliot
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"dorothea"
"mr cassaubon" middlemarch "fauerbach" talking philosophy Eliot's most famous work, Middlemarch, is a turning point in the history of the novel. Making masterful use of a counterpointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, long for exceptional lives but are powerfully constrained both by their own unrealistic expectations and by a conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits. |
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_moll flanders_(picturesque rogue's tale; moll abandoned by her mother; story told by the older moll; ambiguous moral focus)
_robinson crusoe_ (rapid and accumulative style; crusoe's isolation important) "apparition of mrs veal" |
what defoe wrote
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henry james
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long convoluted sentences with many sub-clauses
end of sentence will change apparent effects of the beginning names like 'Isabel Archer' little girl views scene she thinks is horrible but isn't really ('turn of the screw') americans abroad esp in england impressionistic profoundly concerned with morality "daisy miller" _portrait of a lady_ sees a young american heroine trapped in international affairs one of the major figures of trans-Atlantic literature. His works frequently juxtapose characters from different worlds—the Old World (Europe), simultaneously artistic, corrupting, and alluring; and the New World (United States), where people are often brash, open, and assertive—and explore how this clash of personalities and cultures affects the two worlds. He favored internal, psychological drama, and his work is often about conflicts between imaginative protagonists and their difficult environments. |
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matthew arnold
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arguments about the importance of "sweetness and light" (sweetness culture curtesy; light knowledge)
return to hellenic culture loved greeks and greek mythology culture and anarchy empahsis on critic's location of facts to know the thing as it really is--> "sonrab" or "rustum" valorization of ancient greece |
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stories set in havana often bout a timid spy asked to barter his daughters
spies cold war |
greene
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pound
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american
imagery vorticism reference classical greece or rome antiquity in the middle of a modern scene "like a wet branch in the rain" chinese poetry |
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hopkins
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wreck of a ship called "hesperus"
lines joined by long dashes innovative language/not standard words occasional reference to religion |
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"to strive to seek to find and not to yield"
band of brothers "into the valley of death" chart of the light brigade not to question why "lotus eaters" romantic classical/mythological scenes |
tennyson
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elizabeth barett browning
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form more structured
almost surely about love sonnets about portugeuse androgynous love "how do i love thee? let me count the ways" |
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robert browning
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male persepctive unintentionally confessing violence or a crime
"my last duchess" "my wife" "frames apart" "andrea del sarto" in the middle of poetic language, exclamations like "zounds" or "zooks" love among the ruins |
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shelley
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romantic poet (1790s-1820s)
dealt with the sublime and with power concerned with the mind and with time (and how the poet experiences time--poet experiences the infinite, he said) "mont blanc" "prometheus unbound" optimistic "the masque of anarchy" associated with contemporaries keats and byron wrote "a defence of poetry" wrote about politics, hierarchy |
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wordsworth
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he and another romantic poet published "lyrical ballads" which really started the romantic era
fell in love with a french woman, alps and italy 'the prelude' to lyrical ballads highly important; he argued that poetry should be based on the real language of men, and is the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings in a mind" wrote a lot about nature, simple natural language, celebrated the poet "simon lee" (about the old man) "we are seven" (about the little girl and her siblings) "the thorn" nature and social sympathy "tintern abbey" |
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hannah more
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"patient joe"--man who is saved by dog stealing his meat; moral poems
wanted to improve the habits and moral character of the english didactic poems |
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spensarian sonnet
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three quatrains and a couplet
abab bcbc cdcd ee like a shakespearian sonnet |
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spensarian stanza
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a stanza of nine iambic lines, the first eight in pentameter and the ninth in hexameter (it honors the author of the faerie queen)
alexandrine at the close "adds dignity" |
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alexandrine
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a verse with six iambic feet, i.e. iambic hexameter
like: a needless alexandrine ends the song, that, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along |
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"songs of innocence" "songs of experience"
analyzed by northrop frye affection for the bible, but hostility for the church (attacked religious hegemony) new visions of god and men "the shepard," "the lamb," "the chimmney sweeper" obsessed with good and evil and religion ("the marriage of heaven and hell") simple and innocent, deeply mythological but often with his own made-up mythology "the tyger" |
what blake wrote, what he wrote about.
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charlotte turner smith
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romantic poet
wrote a lot of sonnets |
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mary wollestonecraft
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early feminist
'vindication of the rights of women' hates burke |
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coleridge
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dealt with the supernatural (and some conversation poems); spoke openly of the war
'rime of the ancient marinere' 'christabel' 'kubla-khan' 'this lime-tree bower my prison' women's sexuality in christabel; politics elsewhere wrote about poetic language |
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shelley
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the sublime!
"mont blanc" "prometheus unbound" concerned with the mind and how the poet experiences time (the poet lives in infinity) engaged politically "defence of poetry" down with political hierarchy |
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the hero:
talented and passionate individual who is also self-destructive (rebellious and suffering exile) "don juan" "childe harold's pilgrimage" |
byron, his work, his hero.
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blank verse
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unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually in iambic pentameter
used by milton in paradise lost |
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keats
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effaces the poet; poet is erased; poet changes shape
"hyperion" wanted literary immortality deals with death "la belle dame sans merci" hyperion bears close resemblance with milton "ode on a grecian urn" consciousness as a house with many rooms |
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who wrote "she walks in beauty"?
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byron
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epigram
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a pithy saying
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epithet
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an adjective used to point out a characteristic of a person or thing, but also applied to a noun or noun phrase for similar purpose
like: rosy-fingered dawn noisy mansions (schoolhouses) keat's "snarling trumpets" |
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epigraph
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an inscription on stone
OR a quotation on a title page of a book |
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epitaph
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an inscription used to mark burial places
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epithalamium (or epithalamion)
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a poem written to celebrate a wedding
(awake the muses to celebrate the bride, descriptions of the wedding, etc) |
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elegy
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a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme
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encomium
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a composition in praise of a living person, object or event
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objective correlative
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coined by t.s. eliot
a pattern of objects, actions, or events that can serve to awaken in the reader an emotional response without having to actually say what that response is |
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free verse
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verse is rarely free
but it would be without rhyme or rhythm-scheme |
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metonymy
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the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself
like calling the monarch "the crown" |
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morality play
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poetic drama developed in the late fourteenth century distinguished from religious drama proper (like the mysetry play)
it is dramatized by an allegory in which abstractions (like mercy, conscience, etc) appear in human form they are often religious, doctrinal, political "Everyman" is one |
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restoration comedy
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primarily realistic
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comedy of humors
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special type of realistic comedy developed in the closing years of the sixteenth century by ben jonson etc
characters have conduct controlled by one humor (like blood/the liver) |
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elizabethan masque
OR masque |
procession of masked figures through the streets, modified by the religious drama to become a masque
has rapidly changing scenes and tableaux crowded with beautiful figures |
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rhyme royal
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a seven-lined iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ABABBCC (sometimes with an alexandrine--in hexameter--at the end)
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english sonnet
also called shakesperian sonnet |
three quatrains (three sets of four lines) with their own rhyme schemes
and a two-line conclusion |
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italian sonnet
also called petrarchan sonnet |
dintinguished by its division into the octave and seset (the octave rhyming ABBAABBA, and the sestet CDECDE)
SO: eight lines with a rhyme scheme; then six lines with a rhyme scheme |
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ballad
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form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form
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commedia dell'arte
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improvised comedy
a form of italian low comedy dating from the very early times actors play conventional parts a "harlequin" interrupted the action at times |
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who is malvolio?
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the steward of Olivia's household in William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
he is sour and straight-laced |
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who is mosca?
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a little fly bastard in ben jonson's play who tells Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino, in their turns, that they are to be named Volpone's heir, thanks to his influence.
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who/what is tamburlaine?
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a play by marlowe!
tamburlaine is a conqueror; he goes around conquering nations and dies a great man |
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summarize tess of the d'ubervilles
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tess is impregnated by the noble alec d'uberville; runs away to have the baby but it dies. she has a new start, marries angel, confesses her past and he abandons her.
tess eventually kills alec to prove her love for angel, whom she runs away with, but then gets executed. |
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summarize moll flanders
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moll is the daughter of a convict who grows up a foster child, marries one of her foster brothers, who then dies. then she goes around trying to marry for money, becomes a thief, and ends up in newgate prison.
everyone has a monetary value |
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henry fielding
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author of tom jones
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summarize tom jones
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tom jones is a mischievous fellow, thought to be a bastard child, who is warm but always getting into trouble. his actual brother (but they don't know) always tries to persucute him.
he travels about after he is kicked out of his home, and he marries sophia in the end. |
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northrop frye
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got famous studying blake
looked at the intentionalist fallacy took a cue from aristotle and did things inductively |
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structuralism
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an intellectual movement utilizing the methods of structural linguistics and structural anthropology
like barthes, they looks for not an explication but an account of the modes of literary discourse and their operation relationship between structures of society and how meaning is built applying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of the West Side Story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. |
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deconstruction
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coined by derrida
denotes a process by which the texts and languages of (particularly) Western philosophy appear to shift and complicate in meaning when subjected to the textual readings of deconstruction inconsistencies/instability meaning is perpetually deferred text contradicts itself |
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marxism
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teaches a thoery of value based on labor, economic determination, etc.
talks about society and communism; social actions and institutions crucil |
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saul bellow
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Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening, echoing his Jewish heritage
his "adventures of augie march" is about a chicago-born man who has a series of adventures, somewhat like tom jones. "dangling man" is considered apprentice work, also about a man from chicago |
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synaesthesia
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two or more kinds of sensation combined together
like a "loud shirt" or a "blue note" |
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an english metaphysical poet
"the soul is like a drop of dew" |
marvell
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terza rima
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a three-line stanza, supposedly devised by dante with rhyme scheme:
ABA BCB CDC etc etc one rhyme is used for the first and third lines and a new rhyme of the second introduced in the next stanza |
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ottava rima
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a stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming ABABABCC.
like in don juan |
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who talked about "dissociatino of sensibility" and "escape from personality" in _tradition and the individual talent_?
who coined the term "objective correlative? |
t.s. eliot
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who talked about relativity, impression, sensation?
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pater
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who preferred the artificial to the natural?
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wilde
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who discussed responsibility, choice, that there is no exit from choice/responsibility?
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satre
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who discussed structures of power, every form of power as a statement, discipline, analogies of self/state, police?
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foucault
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who said, "the moment of the death of the author is the moment of the life of the reader"?
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barthes
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who talked about how the west manages/manufactures the east through a discourse of power, or the Other? who talked about countries west of turkey?
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said
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who talked about mimicry, hybridity?
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bhabha
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what romantic poet was also concerned with time?
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shelley
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villanelle
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nineteen line poem
five stanzas, each three lines, except the last which is four lines repeated lines |
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sestina
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thirty-nine line poem
six stanzas of six lines each same six end-words but in different order for each stanz the last three lines must gather up and deploy the six end-words |
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pantoum
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each stanza four lines long
as many stanzas as one likes repeating lines (abab bcbc cdcd, etc) |
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who wrote the 'defence of poetry'?
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shelley!
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dorothea brook
edward casaubon tertius lydgate will ladislaw |
characters in middlemarch
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who talked about "sonrab" or "rustum"?
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matthew arnold
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who said "the soul is like a drop of dew"?
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marvell
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long and convuluted sentences, with many subclauses
end will change the apparent effects of the beginning |
henry james
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who wrote a seven-part book that had to do with new england history?
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cotton mather.
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who are hedda gabler?
pier gynt? who wrote about them? |
ibsen!
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orsino
sebastian antonio these are characters in what? |
shakespeare's twelfth night
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what is seven lines and in iambic pentameter?
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rhyme royal
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main difference between rhyme royale and a spensarian stanza?
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rhyme royal is seven lines, SOMETIMES ending in an alexandrine.
spensarian stanza is nine lines, ALWAYS ending in an alexandrine. |
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"of all the causes which conspire to blind
man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, what the weak head with strongest bias rules, is pride, the never-failing vice of fools" |
pope's "an essay on criticism"
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"not, i'll not, carrion comfort, despair, not feast on thee;
not untwist--slack they may be--these last strands of man" |
gerard manley hopkins "carrion comfort"
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"since wailing is a bud of causeful sorrow,
since sorrow is the follower of ill fortune, since no ill fortune equals public damage, now prince's loss hath made our damage public" |
sidney's "old arcadia"
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"methought i saw my late espoused saint
brought to me like alcestis from the grave, whom jove's great son to her glad husband gave, rescued from death by force, though pale and faint" |
milton's "methought i saw my late espoused saint"
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"at the round earth's imagined corners, blow
your trumpets, angels; and arise, arise from death, you numberless infinities of souls, and to your scattered bodies go; all whom the flood did, and fire shall, o'erthrow" |
donne's "holy sonnet: at the round earth's imagined corners"
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"the city now doth, like a garment, wear
the beauty of the morning; silent, bare, ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie open unto the fields, and to the sky" |
wordsworth's "composed on westminster bridge"
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"bright star, would i were steadfast as thou art--
not in lone splendor hung aloft the night and watching, with eternal lids apart, like nature's patient sleepless eremite" |
keats "bright star"
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"how do i love thee? let me count the ways.
i love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace" |
elizabeth barrett browning's "sonnets form the portuguese"
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"what my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
i have forgotten, and what arms have lain under my head till morning; but the rain is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for reply" |
edna st vincent millay's "what lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
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"the cambridge ladies who live in furnishd souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also, with the church's protestant blessings duaghters, unscented shapeless spirited)" |
ee cummings "tulips and chimmneys"
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"we real cool. we
left school. we lurk late. we strike straight. we sing sin. we thin gin. we jazz june. we die soon." |
gwendolyn brooks "we real cool"
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"what is beauty, saith my sufferings, then?
if all teh pens that ever poets held had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts and every sweetness that inspired their hearts, their minds and muses on admired themes" |
marlowe's "tamburlaine"
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It was a summer night, a close warm night,
Wan, dull, and glaring, with a dripping mist Low-hung and thick that covered all the sky, Half threatening storm and rain; but on we went Unchecked, being full of heart and having faith |
wordsworth's "the prelude"
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It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among those barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me |
tennyson's "ulysses"
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In pious times, e’re priestcraft did begin,
Before polygamy was madea sin; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confined |
dryden's "absalom and achitophel"
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Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue,
On deathelss glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid they pencil, and they verse conspire! |
wheatley's "to s.m., an african painter,on seeing his works"
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…she had a heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad,
too easily impressed; she liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, ‘twas all one! |
browning's "my last duchess"
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The double sorwe of troilus to tellen,
That was the kyng of priamus sone of troye, In lovynege, how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele, and after out of joie, My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye. |
chaucer's "troilus and criseyde"
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So having ended, silence long ensewed,
Ne nature to or fro spake for a space, But with firme eyes affixt, the ground still viewed. Meane while, all creatures, looking in her face |
spenser's "the faerie queen"
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what distinguishes an elegy?
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it is a LAMENTATION.
a LAMENTATION, tania. |
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The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the french coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay… And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night |
matthew arnold's "dover beach"
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come live with me and be my love,
and we will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves, hills, and fields, woods, or steepy mountain yields |
marlowe's "the passionate shepard to his love"
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how vainly men themselves amaze
to win the palm, the oak, or bays, and their incessant labors see crowned from some single herb, or tree, whose short and narrow-verged shade does prudently their toils upbraid; while all flowers and trees do close to weave the garlands of repose! |
marvell "the garden"
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thou still unravisehd bride of quietness,
thou foster child of silence and slow time, sylvan historian, who canst thus express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme ... when old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know |
keats' "ode on a grecian urn"
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season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; conspiring with him how to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run |
keats' "to autumn"
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for authorities whose hopes
are shaped by mercenaries? writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters' comforts? not for these the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell. |
marianne moore's "the paper nautilus"
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she sang beyond the genius of the sea.
the water never formed to mind or voice, like a body wholly body, fluttering its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion |
wallace stevens "the idea of order at key west"
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by the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast--a cold wind. ... but now the stark dignity of entrance--still the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken |
william carlos williams' "spring and all"
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you do not do, you do not do
any more, black shoe in which i have lived like a foot for thirty years, poor and white, barly daring to breathe or achoo ... there's a stake in your fat black heart and the villagers never liked you. they are dancing and stamping on you. they always knew it was you. daddy, daddy, you bastard, i'm through. |
sylvia plath's "daddy"
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if you see "vladimir" or "estragon", who wrote this?
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beckett
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who wrote "mont blanc?"
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shelley
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who wrote "kubla khan"?
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coleridge
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the "spontaneous overflow of feelings in a mind" is from what?
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wordsworth's "the prelude"
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who looked at the interplay between imagination and reality and between consciousness and the world?
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wallace stevens
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Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds |
wallace stevens' "the idea of order at key west"
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who was the source of spenser's virtues in the faerie queen?
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aristotle
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these are the books of what?
* Book I: Holiness * Book II: Temperance * Book III: Chastity * Book IV: Friendship * Book V: Justice * Book VI: Courtesy |
spenser's the faerie queen
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Let none then blame me, if in discipline
Of vertue and of civill uses lore, I doe not forme them to the common line Of present dayes, which are corrupted sore, But to the antique use which was of yore, When good was onely for it selfe desyred, And all men sought their owne, and none no more; When Justice was not for most meed out-hyred, But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred. ... And as she lookt about, she did behold, How over that same dore was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and every where be bold, That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it By any ridling skill, or commune wit. At last she spyde at that roomes upper end, Another yron dore, on which was writ, Be not too bold; whereto though she did bend Her earnest mind, yet wist not what it might intend. |
spenser's "the faerie queen"
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the birthday party
the caretaker the homecoming betrayal are plays by whom? |
pinter
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