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British Literature Poets
Spenser, Surry, Donne, Herbert, Shakespeare etc.
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Literature
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12/07/2011

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Canzoniere
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Petrarch
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The Dark Lady
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Shakespeare
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Elizabeth Boyle
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Spenser
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Laura (laura-laurel-laureate)
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Petrarch
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Anne (Anna) Boylen
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Wyatt
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Lord Rich
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Sidney
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Ovid's elegies
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Donne
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Defence of Poetry
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Sidney
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The Faerie Queene
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Spenser
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Invented the "Shakespearean" sonnet form
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Wyatt
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Wrote his own marriage hymn
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Spenser
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Had poems in the first great collection of English lyrics (1557)
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Surrey
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Metrically irregular sonnets
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Wyatt
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First English petrarchist
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Wyatt
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Wrote emblematic or "shaped" poems
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Herbert
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HIs Tudor court poems always scan and are always metrically "correct"
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Surrey
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Author of the first successful sonnet sequence in English literature
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Astrophil and Stella-- Sidney
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Numerological and calednrical symbolism
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Spenser
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Outrageous, even blasphemous "metaphysical conceits"
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Donne
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Greates of the 17th centruy neoclassical poets and rival to Shakespear for his drama
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Johnson
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Tottel's Miscellany
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Wyatt and Surrey
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Anglican Priest
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Donne
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"Inviting a Friend to Supper"
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Ben Johnson
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"If this be error and upon me proved/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved"
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Shakespeare
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Sir Thomas More
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Donne
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The penelope Game
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Sidney
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King Henry VIII (England's amatory "Caesar")
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Petrarch
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First English neoclassical poet
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Surrey
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Courted his second wife during Lent
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Spenser
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Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
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Herbert
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Royal figure mocked in that witty "metaphysical" elegy on "America" in the bedroom
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Donne
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Mirreus, Crants, Graius, Phyrgius, Graccus
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Donne
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Penshurst
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Johnson
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Virgil's Aeneid, Books 2,4
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Surrey
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Johnson' "best piece of Poetrie"
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On my 1st son
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Catholic processus for sainthood
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Donne
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Ash WEdnesday
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Spenser
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Anne More
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Donne
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June 11, 1595
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Spenser-- Shortest day of the year
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Ab ab cd cd ef ef gg
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English Sonnet
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Foreconceit
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Defense of Poetry -- Sidney
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Parody of Petrarchan conceits
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Donne
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On a huge hill, cragged and steep, ______ stands
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Donne
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Hoc est corpus meum (sassy parody of Cupid's penetarting darts
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Donne
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Death=our debt to Nature ("my good is dead")
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Elegy 17 by Donne
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15 August 1617
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Anne Moore died-- Donne
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Geometrical compasses
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Donne
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"no more"
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Donne
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