Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf was written in this language
The Canterbury Tales was written in this language.
What is Middle English?
This word and its variants are mentioned over 50 times in Macbeth.
What is blood?
Also the name of a popular Metallica song, John Donne in Meditation 17 says not to send someone to find out this.
What is "for whom the bell tolls"?
Richard Lovelace claims that these do not a prison make.
What are "stone walls"?
What is comitatus?
The Canterbury Tales is an example of this kind of story.
What is a frame story?
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is this kind of poem.
What is a pastoral?
John Milton invokes its help as muse at the beginning of Paradise Lost.
Samuel Pepys witnessed the return of this king.
Who is Charles II?
Through songs and stories, scops insured that warriors achieved this.
What is lof?
Robin Hood is this kind of story.
What is a ballad?
When a sinner advances a level in Purgatory, one of these is erased from their forehead.
What is the letter p?
"To His Coy Mistress" and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" were written by this group of poets.
What are Cavalier Poets?
This ridiculous teacher with a ridiculous name says that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Who is Dr. Pangloss?
Working in scriptoriums, these people are the reason we enjoy works like Beowulf today.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is this kind of story.
What is a romance?
This character in Macbeth asked, "Will these hands ne'er be clean?"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
"A Modest Proposal" is this kind of satire.
What is Juvenalian?
Want to read a newspaper with interesting insights into social behavior? Read this.
What is The Spectator?
When fighting the dragon, Beowulf realizes that this was against him.
What is wyrd?
According to the old lady in The Wife of Bath's Tale, women really want this.
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but signifying this.
What is "nothing"?
Thomas Gray compares people who died in obscurity to these two hidden items in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
What is a gem and a desert flower?
Andrew Marvell always hears this at his back.
What is "Time's winged chariot"?