Author Names
Wrote "In Memorium"
death, doom, despair, oral literature
Anglo-Saxon Era
Qualities of an Epic
long narrative poem
national hero
lofty language
supernatural elements
battle between good and evil
Wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Thomas Gray
Wrote "My Last Duchess"
Robert Browning
Chaucer
Medieval Period
Ode
formal poem praising something
Wrote Meditation XVII
John Donne
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Charles Dickens
List components of the Romantic Era
nature, common man, imagination, emotion, etc.
Elegy
Poem lamenting something/someone
Wrote The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Matthew Arnold
WB Yeats
Modern Era
art for art's sake
Wrote Utopia
Thomas Moore
List some major characters in Beowulf.
Beowulf (duh)
Ecgtheow (Beowulf's dad)
Unferth (jerk)
Hygelac (leader of the Danes; Beowulf's uncle)
Hrothgar (leader of the Yeats)
"Past and Present"; an excerpt on the sacredness of work
Thomas Carlyle
John Milton
Puritan Era
Metaphysical Conceit
Wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Pearl Poet
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw