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| Printing of King James Bible |
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| Restoration of the monarchy |
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| Publication of Johnson's dictionary |
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unrhymed iambic pentameter lines- no stanzas
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| 14 line poem - iambic pentameter- turn |
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| Shakespearean/ English sonnet |
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| rhyme scheme: abbaabba (cdecde) (cdcdcdc) (cdcdee) |
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| Petrarchan/ Italian sonnet |
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| Shakespearean/ English sonnet |
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| short poetic form, without restriction of meter, expression of personal emotion (often in 1st person) is often given primacy over narrative sequence |
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| extended metaphors that have a much more conceptual, and thus tenuous relationship between the things being compared- used by 17th century metaphysical poets |
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| two consecutive rhyming lines usually containing the same number of stresses- used specifically in classical epics |
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| an informal philosophical meditation, usually in prose and sometimes in verse- developed in the early 18th century ex. Pope's An Essay on Criticism |
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| a rhetorical principle whereby each formal aspect of a work should be in keeping with its subject matter and/ or audience |
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| devoted to the more or less savage attack on social ills ex. Gulliver's Travels |
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| born into Roman Catholic family and suffered for faith |
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| converted to the English church |
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| interested in satire and elegey- classical Roman genres- and helped introduce them to English verse |
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| ordained in the Church of England |
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| insisted that the private world of lovers is superior o the wider public world |
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| "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" |
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| Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward |
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| Hymn to God My god, in My Sickness |
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| In poem after poem he has to come to terms with the fact that his relationshipw with Christ is always radically unequal, that Christ must both initiate it and enable his own response |
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| used emblem and shape poetry |
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| Roman catholic: could not attend university, vote, or hold public office |
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| the 1st english writer to build a lucrative career by publishing his works |
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| devoted to the Anglican church |
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| ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you |
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| the hallmark of his life was fear- especially fear of death |
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| often introduces a paradox in the final couplet of his Petrarchan sonnets |
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| gave his poems to Nicholas Ferrar |
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| I write for a fit audience yet few |
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| Books 1-4 of Paradise Lost |
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| Books 5- 8 of Paradise Lost |
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| Danger Signs and Warnings |
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| Books 5-6 in Paradise Lost |
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| Books 7-8 in Paradise Lost |
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| Books 9-12 in Paradise Lost |
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| Fall and Results (both bad and good) |
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| The Restoration- Charles II comes on the scene |
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| century that valued the classics of Greece and rome |
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| most famous author of the 18th century |
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| considered poetry the business of his life |
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| a little learning is a dangerous thing |
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| Pope's Essay on Criticism |
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| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread |
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| Pope's essay on criticism |
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| -standard - deviant - vehicle - Tone |
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| longed for England; imprisoned in Ireland |
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| 4 centers of interest in Gulliver's travels |
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| - Gulliver's growing awareness of the superiority of the Houyhnhnms - Gulliver's growing awareness that he is a Yahoo - The reader's growing awareness that Houyhnhms society is flawed - The reader's growing awareness that Gulliver is a pathalogical misanthrope |
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| nicknamed "the great cham" |
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| The 5 stages of the Runaway Imagination - Samuel Johnson |
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| - perceive some deficiency in present situation - imagine some other circumstance or posession- oversimplify the imagined state - work to attain the new state - find the new situation has no answer |
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| Queen Elizabeth was suceeded by |
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| Charles I was suceeded by |
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| English King notorious for his financial heedlessness |
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| King of England who's cautious attitude characterized him as a peacemaker |
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| new respect for the practical arts |
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| faith in technology as a means of improving human life |
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| conviction that the future might be better than the past |
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| most writing remained in manuscript |
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| the norm was short, concentrated, often witty poems |
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| saw the new forms of love elegy and satire |
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| saw the emergence of the familiar essay |
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| three literary eras of the 17th century |
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| Jacobean, Caroline, Revolutionary |
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| saw the emergence of religious toleration, separation of church and state, freedom from press censorship. and popular sovereignty |
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| 1640-1660, revolutionary era |
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| saw the emergence of 2 political parties: Tories and Whigs |
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| a school of English poets who supported James I during the English Civil War- light in style and generally secular in subject |
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| classical concept of God's strict and natural hierarchical structure of the universe |
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| great chain of being- 17th century |
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| a moral philosophy that places the human at the center of importance- specifically emphasizing the importance of rationality |
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a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge arises from sense experience
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| a theory of knowledge that asserts that the criterion of knowledge is not sensory but intellectual and deductive |
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| an overindulgence in emotion; an optimistic overemphasis of the goodness of humanity |
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| 2 of the earliest masters of the novel |
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| Samuel Richardson + Henry Fielding |
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