Who is the woman he courted for many years. She rejected him regularly and he even proposed to her daughter. She was often a subject of his poetry.
100
"Exterminate the brutes!"
What is Heart of Darkness
100
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Who is Wilfred Owen
100
“No Second Troy” was written for her
Who is Maud Gonne
100
Beyond the pale
What is a term that originally meant to cross the Irish border, but it came to be known as a modernist term for breaking boundaries
200
Theosophy
What is the study of God through mystical means
200
"Till human voices wake us and we drown"
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
200
Heart of Darkness
Who is Joseph Conrad
200
Jacob's Room author, date, and plot
What is Virginia Woolf, 1922, young man dies at war; family tries to piece his life together by what remains in his room
200
The women come and go, talking of him
Who is Michelangelo
300
Spiritus Mundi
What is the spirit of the world that inspires and infuses us all
300
“I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting”
What is Heart of Darkness
300
"Musee de Beaux Arts"
Who is Auden
300
Put his wife in a sanitarium and never visited her again; she was considered sane about ten years into her stay
Who is TS Eliot
300
Conrad's third language
What is English
400
poem about the rape of Helen's mother
What is Leda and the Swan
400
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”
What is "Dulce et Decorum Est?"
400
Ulysses (the novel)
Who is James Joyce
400
Wanted to be Mussolini's personal poet
Who is Ezra Pound
400
Believed that religion and philosophy had become too dry and divisive; said we should throw out all of the writing thus far and write with a new emotion
Who is DH Lawrence
500
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
What are lines from The Second Coming; Chinua Achebe bases his novel Things Fall Apart on these lines
500
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
What is The Second Coming
500
Said the world changed in 1910
Who is Virginia Woolf
500
Amy Lowell
What is the cofounder of Imagism. Pound got mad that she was more popular and he went to England
500
The theory of relativity
What is Einstein's theory that NOTHING is relative except human beings; we just do not have all of the information