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Term

Pride and Prejudice (N)

-Elizabeth and Jane Bennett, Mr.Darcy, and Mr. Bingley)

Definition
Jane Austen
Term

The Advancement of Learning

-from Instauratio Magna (Great Renewal) that was intended to be a compilaton of his work in experimental science, but he only completed two of the six parts

Definition

Sir Francis Bacon

-a solicitor general, attorney general, and Lord Chancellor to James I

-created Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans

Term

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (PL)

-Wendy, Michael, and John Darling, Tinkerbell, and Captian Hook

-set in Never-Never-Land

Definition
Sir James Barrie
Term

The Tyger (P)

-"Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night"

Definition
William Blake
Term

Song of Innocence (collection of P)

Definition

William Blake

-illustrated the covers of his works

Term

Songs of Experience (collection of P)

Definition
William Blake
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

-Johnson's quote: "Hell is paved with good intentions."

Definition
James Boswell
Term

Jane Eyre (N)

-Jane is a governess

-Edward Rochester

-set in Thornfield Hall

Definition
Charlotte Bronte
Term

Wuthering Heights (N)

-Heathcliffe, Catherine Earnshaw, and Edgar Linton

-only novel by this author

-set in the mansions of Wuthering Heights and Thruschcross Grange

Definition
Emily Bronte
Term

Sonnets From the Portuguese (P)

-a collection of sonnets which express her love her love for her husband

-the 43rd sonnet contains the line: "How do I love thee, let me count the ways"

Definition

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

-eloped with Robert Browning

-maiden name was Moulton

Term

Pilgrim's Progress (full title: The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which is to Come)

-Prose allegory recounts the adventures of Christian as he makes his way to the Celestial City

-written during his second imprisonment

Definition

John Bunyan

-a Baptist minister, he was in prison from 1660-72 and in 75 for not obeying royal edicts regarding his nonconformist preaching

Term

A Clockwork Orange (N)

-about a world terrorized by teenage gangs who speak Nadsat, a blend of British, American, and Russian slang

Definition
Anthony Burgess
Term

To a Mouse (P)

-"The best laid schemes o' mice and men, gang aft a-gley (oft go awry)"

Definition
Robert Burns
Term

Auld Lang Syne (Old Long Ago) (P)

-a traditional song he wrote down and formalized

Definition

Robert Burns

-known as the Scottish Poet or The Bard of Ayoshire

Term

Don Juan (P)

-unfinished at death, he considered it his masterpiece

Definition

Lord George Gordon Byron

-the 6th Baron of Rochdale, he served in the House of Lords

-was short and had clubfoot

-died fighting in the Greek revolution

-created the "Byronic hero", a melancholy, defiant young man who committed a mysterious sin in his past

Term

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (N)

-The Queen of Hearts, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Mock Turtle, Mad Hatter

-written for Alice Liddell

-illustrated by John Tenniel

Definition

Lewis Carroll

-pen name of the Reverand Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

-a mathematics lecturer at Oxford

Term

Canterbury Tales

-Harry Bailly, the owner of the Tabard Inn, sets out with a group on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Beckett as the judge of their storytelling contest

-contains 24 tales including: Wife of Bath's, Prioress', and Knight's Tales

-first line: "Whan that April with his shoures soote"

Definition

Geoffrey Chaucer

-Father of English Literature

-given lifetime pensions by Kings Edward III and Richard II

-served in the English army and Parliament, was a Clerk of the King's Work and a Controller of Customs

Term

Murder on the Orient Express (N)

-dectective Hercule Poirot

Definition

Agatha Christie

-most widely translated author in English

-born Agatha Clarissa Miller

Term

2001: A Space Odyssey (N)

-also wrote the screenplay for the movie with Stanley Kubrick

-David Bowman

-set on the spaceship Discovery on its voyage to and in orbit around Jupiter

Definition
Arthur Charles Clarke
Term

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (P)

-deals with the punishment and penance of a seaman who kills and albatross while traveling to a wedding

-"Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, not any drop to drink"

-"He prayeth best who loveth best all things, both great and small"

Definition

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-member of the Lake District poets

Term

Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream (P)

-composed during a dream induced by opium, when he awoke he was unable to write it all down because he interrupted by the unknown "Person from Porlock"

-"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree"

Definition

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-member of the Lake District poets

Term

Heart of Darkness (SS)

-Marlow and Kurtz

-Kurtz's dying words are "The horror! The horror!"

-basis for the movie Apocalypse Now

Definition

Joseph Conrad

-rose to the rank of Captiain in the British merchant service

-born: Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland

Term

Lord Jim (N)

-Marlow

Definition

Joseph Conrad

-born: Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland

Term
The Origins of Species (full title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life)
Definition

Charles Robert Darwin

-did research as a biologish on the H.M.S. Beagle

Term

The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (N)

-Friday, a native Robinson saves from the cannibals

-based on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk

Definition

Daniel Defoe

-the first author of ghost stories in modern English literature

Term

Death Be Not Proud (P)

-part of Cycle of Holy Sonnets

 

Definition

John Donne

-founder and greatest member of the Metaphysical poets

-dean at St. Paul's Cathedral

Term
THe Hound of the Baskervilles (N)
Definition

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

-served as a physician in the Boer War

Term

Silas Marner, or the Weaver of Raveloe (N)

-Eppie

Definition

George Eliot

-really Mary Ann Evans

Term

The Waste Land (P)

-edited by Ezra Pound

-consists of five sections: The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; Fire Sermon; Death by Water; and What the Thunder Said

-"April is the cruelest month"

Definition

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

Term

The Hollow Men (P)

-"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper"

Definition

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

Term
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (P)
Definition

Thomas Stearns Eliot

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1948

-described himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"

Term

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (N)

-Swuire and Sophia Western, and Supire Allworthy

Definition

Henry Fielding

-his plays inspired the Licensing Act of 1737 which banned the use of the stage for political satire

-organized the "Bow Street runners" an early London police force

Term
Howards End (N)
Definition

Edward Morgan Forster

-member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers

Term

Where Angels Fear to Tread (N)

-title taken from a ling in Pope's An Essay on Criticism

Definition

Edward Morgan Forster

-member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers

Term

Lord of the Flies (N)

-a group of boys including Piggy, Simon, Ralph, and Jack are stranded on a desert island where they revert to savagery

Definition

William Golding

-awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983

-served in the Navy during WWII

Term

The Vicar of Wakefield (N)

-Dr. Charles Primrose

Definition

Oliver Goldsmith

-coined the term "Poet Corner" for the burial plot in Westminster

Term

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (P)

-often considered the greates poem written in the 18th century

-"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."

-"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

Definition
Thomas Gray
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The Power and the Glory
Definition

Henry Graham Greene

-worked for MI6, the British intelligence service

-works relfect the deep spiritualism he felt as a convert to Catholicism

Term

The Mayor of Casterbridge (N)

- Michael Henchard is the Mayor

-Susan Henchard, Elizabeth-Jane and Donald Farfrae

Definition
Thomas Hardy
Term

The Return of the Native

-Clym Yeobright and Eustacia Wye

Definition
Thomas Hardy
Term

Tess of the D'ubervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (N)

-Tess Durbeyfield

Definition
Thomas Hardy
Term

Leviathan, or The Matter, Form and Power of Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil

-"The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

Definition

Thomas Hobbes

-spent life as a tutor of the Cavendish family

Term

Brave New World

-title taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest

-set in the year 632 AF(after Ford), and deals with the character John the Savage who is introduced to a controlled and repressed society

-Mustafa Mond

Definition

Aldous Huxley

 

Term
Dictionary of the English Language
Definition

Samuel Johnson

-known as Dr. Johnson or the Great Cham of Literature

- "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Term

Ode to a Nightingale (P)

-"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"

Definition

John Keats

-recieved a medical certificate but never practiced

-died of tuberculosis in Italy

Term

Ode on a Grecian Urn (P)

-"Truth is beauty, beauty truth. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

Definition

John Keats

-recieved a medical certificate but never practiced

-died of tuberculosis in Italy

Term
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Definition

John Maynard Keynes

-represented the British Treasure at the Paris Peace Confrence

-first Baron of Tilton

Term

The Jungle Book (N)

-a collection of animal stories

-Mowgli, Baloo (bear), Shere Khan (tiger)

-contains story: Riki-tiki-tavi

Definition

Rudyard Kippling

-1907 first Englishman and youngest man ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

-Known as The Bard of the Empire

Term

Sons and Lovers (N)

-autobiographical novel was attacked for its frank discussion of sexual matters

Definition
D. H. Lawrence
Term

Lady Chatterly's Lover (N)

-Sir Clifford and Constance Chatterly, and Oliver Mellors, the lover

-banned in Europe and the US until 1960 for obscene content

Definition
D. H. Lawrence
Term

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

-an account of his adventures in the Middle East fomenting an Arab revolt during WWII

Definition

Thomas Edwards Lawrence

-known as Lawrence of Arabia

-seeking obsurity, he joined the RAF under the name Shaw

Term

The Narnia Chronicles (N)

-includes the book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chain; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew; and The Last Battle

Definition

C. S. Lewis

(Clive Staples Lewis)

Term

Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) (N)

-recounts the legends of King Arthur

-completed in prison

Definition

Sir Thomas Malory

-a Member of Parliament

-died in prison where he was serving time for armed assult and rape

Term

An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society

-set forth the idea that the food supply increases arithmetically and the population geometrically

Definition

Sir Thomas Malthus

-clergyman of the Church of England

Term

Tamburlaine the Great (PL)

-based on the life of Mongol conqueror Tamerlane

-"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?"

Definition

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

Term

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (PL)

-about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil

Definition

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

Term

The Jew of Malta (PL)

-Barabas

Definition

Christopher Marlowe

-killed in a duel with Ingram Frizer over a tavern bill

Term

Of Human Bondage (N)

-Philip Carey, a club-footed orphan who becomes a country doctor

Definition

William Somerset Maugham

-awarded the Order of Merit on his 18th birthday

Term
On Liberty
Definition

John Stuart Mill

-a Member of Parliment from 1865 to 1868

Term
Utilitarianism
Definition

John Stuart Mill

-a Member of Parliment from 1865 to 1868

Term

Winnie-the-Pooh

-Tigger, Piglet, Roo, and Eeyore

Definition

A. A. Milne

-the Pooh books were written for his son Christopher Robin who also appears as the only human in the works

Term
The House at Pooh Corner
Definition

A. A. Milne

-the Pooh books were written for his son Christopher Robin who also appears as the only human in the works

Term

Paradise Lost (P)

-generally considered the greatest epic ever written, it tells the story "Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, with loss of Eden."

-appearing in the work, the city of Pandemonium is the "high capital of Satan and his peers."

-"It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven"

Definition

John Milton

-lost eyesight in 1652 and Andrew Marvell became his assistant

-a strong Puritain, he was in charge of the foreign correspondence of Oliver Cromwell

-when Carles II returned, he was fined and arrested but escaped prison

Term

Areopagitica

-a pamphlet which was written in support of freedom of the press

Definition

John Milton

-lost eyesight in 1652 and Andrew Marvell became his assistant

-a strong Puritain, he was in charge of the foreign correspondence of Oliver Cromwell

-when Carles II returned, he was fined and arrested but escaped prison

Term

Utopia

-taken from Greek for "not a place", this island has become the general name for any ideal place

Definition

Sir (Saint) Thomas More

-Member of Parliament and Lord Chancellor

a leader of English humanisim

-refused to acknowledge his friend Henry VII as head of the Church, was imprisoned and executed, then canonized by the Pope

-he is the subject of the movie and play "A Man for All Seasons"

Term

Principia Mathematica (full title: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy))

-presented the laws of motion and gravitation

Definition
Sir Isaac Newton
Term

Diary

-written in shorthand it was not deciphered until 1825, now best historical source of information about mid-late 1600s historical period

Definition

Samuel Pepys

-was a President of the Royal Society

-served in Parliament and was later imprisoned for Stuartist sympathies

Term

The Rape of the Lock (P)

-"What dire offense from amorous causes spring, what mighty contests rise from trivial things"

-a mock epic based on a real incident in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fremor's hair, this results in a feud between the family

-Belinda

Definition

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

Term

An Essay on Criticism (P)

-"Fools rush is where angels fear to thread"

-"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

-"To err is human, to forgive is divine."

Definition

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

Term

An Essay on Man (P)

-"Hope springs eternal in the human breast"

Definition

Alexander Pope

-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

Term

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

-Floppsy, Moppsy, and Cottontail

Definition

Beatrix Potter

-writter and illustrator children's book

Term

Waverly (N)

-first of 32 historical novels and stories which became known as the Waverly Novels including: Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor, The Heart of Midlothian, and Guy Mannering

Definition

Sir Walter Scott

-nicknamed the Wizard of the North

-refused poet laureateship in favor of Robert Southey

Term

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (N)

-Victor Frankenstein is the name of a doctor, the monster was never given a name

Definition

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

-born Mary Godwin

-second wife of Percy Shelley

Term

Prometheus Unbound (PL)

Definition

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

Term

Ozymandias (P)

-inspired by Pharaoh Ramses II

-"I met a traveler from an antique land."

-"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair."

Definition

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

Term

Adonais (P)

-an elegy for the death of his friend John Keats

Definition

Percy Shelley

-killed in a boating accident in Italy, his body was burned on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron

Term

The Wealth of Nations (full title: Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)

-published in 1776

-"A nation of shopkeepers

-contains theory of the invisible hand and uses a pin factory to illustrate its points

Definition

Adam Smith

-The Father of Modern Economics

Term

The Faerie Queene (P)

-Gloriana(The Faeire Queene who signifies Queen Elizabeth I) and Prince Arthur

-originally consist of twelve books, only six survivie: Red Cross Knight, Sir Guyon, Britomart, Cambel and Triamond, Artegal, and Calidore, each of whom represent a moral virtue

Definition

Edmund Spenser

-the Spenserian stanza, a type of stanza which has nine lines that he invented for use in The Faerie Queene

Term

Dracula (N)

-Jonathan Harker

Definition

Abraham Bram Stoker

Term

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (PL)

-concerns the fate of two minor characters from Hamlet

Definition
Tom Stoppard
Term

Gulliver's Travels (full title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver) (N)

-he makes four voyages:

1. Lilliput, a land of size inch people

2. Brobdingnag, a land of giants

3. Laputa, an empire of scientists and musicians who live on a flying island

4. Houyhnhnmland, a land where intelligent horses rule over human-like slaves (Yahoos)

Definition

Jonathan Swift

-appointed Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin

-writing under the pseudonym M. B. Drapier, he inflamed the irish mood and British authorities offered a reward for his arrest

Term

The Charge of the Light Brigade (P)

-celebrates the English cavalry charge at the battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War

-"Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered"

-"Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death rode the six hundered."

Definition

Alfred Tennyson

-1st Baron Tennyson, commonly called Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-poet laureate from 1850 to 1892

Term

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (N)

-the title is taken from the name of a fair in Byyan's Pilgrim's Progress

-Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley

Definition

William Makepeace Thackeray

Term

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (P)

-"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Definition
Dylan Thomas
Term

The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

-treatise on fishing in which Piscator (an angler) tries to convince Venator (a hunter) that fishing is the better sport

Definition

Izaak Walton

Term
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (N)
Definition

Evelyn Waugh

-served as an army officer in WWII

Term

The Invisible Man (N)

-Griffin

Definition

H. G. Wells

Term

Tintern Abbey (full title: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye) (P)

-found in Lyrical Ballads (P collection)

Definition

William Wordsworth (and Coleridge)

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon

Term

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (P)

-an autobiographical poem, it was originally dedicated to Coleridge

Definition

William Wordsworth

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon

Term
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (P)
Definition

William Wordsworth

-member of the Lake District Poets

-poet laureate from 1843-1850

-lived with his sister Dorothy for much of his life

-an enthusiastical supported of the French Revolution, while in France he had an affair with aand a daughter by Annette Vallon

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