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44 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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Milton
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Paradise Lost, Behemoth: biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness
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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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Burns, Robert
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(Scottish) Auld Lang Syne, O my Love is like a red red rose(And fare thee weel, my only luve!And are thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my luve,Tho it were ten thousand mile!), To a Mouse, Tam O'Shantner
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cummings, e.e.
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(first letter lowercase, time in French prison)
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Robinson, Edward Arlington
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The Mill, Richard Cory(suicide), Mr. Flood's Party
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Hughes, Langston
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"Cross, Dream Deferred(“Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?”“Or crust and sugar over—/like a syrupy sweet?”“Or does it explode?” “Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load.”)
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Wadsworth, William
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(discusses wastfulness and indifference of humans toward nature. Nature often his theme) The World is too much with us
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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 majorityIn this, as all, prevail:Assent, and you are sane;Demur,you’re straightway dangerousAnd handled with a chain.), I heard a fly buzz when I was dead, I felt a funeral in my brain" |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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(Friend of Thoreau)Suum Cuique(Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill), Nature, The Snowstorm
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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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Yeats, William Butler
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(b. Dublin, Gaelic-influenced) Sailing to Bysantium, the Second Coming, When you are Old, To a child Dancing in the Wind
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Algelou, Maya
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The Rock Cries out to us Today, Million Man March, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Browning, Robert
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"My last Duchess(That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
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Plath, Sylvia
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(Suicide at 30, dark macabre pieces) Ariel, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees
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Housman, AE
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To an athlete dying young
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Caroll, Lewis
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(Charles Dodgsen), Jabberwocky
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Kinnel, Galway
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Blackberry eating
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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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St, Vincent Millay, Edna
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(1892-1950,sonnets, lively tone) Elegy before Death, Thou art lovelier than Lilacs, the Suicide, the Little Ghost,Pulitzer prize for Harp Weaver and Other Poems
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Keats, John
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(1795-1821) To Autumn(Seasons od mists and yellow fruitfulness), To Hope, Ode to a Nightingale, On Death,On looking into Chapman's Homer
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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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Homer
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Illiad, Odyseey, 8th century BC, Greek, epic
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Gillihan, Strickland
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Lines on Antiquity of Micrilus (Adam, Had'em)
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Marlowe, Christopher
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b. 1564 , Dr. Faustus, Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
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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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Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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1844-1889 the Wreck of Deutschland, the caged Skylark, Heaven-Heaven, Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur
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Larkin, Philip
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(deadly wit, exposed less savory sides of English life) the North Shop, The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows
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Hardy, Thomas
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(Themes-man fighting against supernatural forces) A Study of Reading Habits, Church Going Toads
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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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Hayden, Robert
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(Detroit) The Whipping, Those Winter Sundays, Ballad of Remembrance (grand prize 1966 World Fest Negro arts
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Nemerov, Howard
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Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket
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Parker, Dorothy
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One Perfect Rose
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