Who wrote that?
Medieval Literature
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
Poetry
17th/18th Century
100

Utopia

Thomas More

100

This author wrote "Lanval"

Marie de France

100

Sir Thomas More served under this monarch.

Henry VIII

100

Thomas Wyatt adapted the sonnet form from this poet.

Petrarch

100

"A Modest Proposal" is written in this genre/style.

Satire

200

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

200

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is part of this revival.

Alliterative

200

Mary Astell's writing is often categorized as this.

Proto-feminist

200

This type of poetry romanticizes life in countryside.

Pastoral

200

These TWO poets wrote Georgic poetry about field work.

Stephen Duck and Mary Collier.

300

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

300

This text uses a frame narrative.

The Canterbury Tales

300

This author's “mighty line” is said to have launched the great period of Elizabethan drama.

Christopher Marlowe

300

The first “official” poet laureate, named in 1668

John Dryden

300

William Cowper's "The Castaway" is this type of poem.

Elegiac

400

The Diary

Samuel Pepys

400

This 14th-century text does NOT use the dialect of English that is a precursor to the English we speak today.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

400

This is the name of the philosophical movement associated with the author of Utopia.

Renaissance Humanism

400

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is this type of poem.

Pastoral lyric of invitation

400

This poet wrote "Ode: Rule, Britannia"

James Thomson

500

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Thomas Gray

500

This event: ____________ in this year: _____________ led to the rise of Anglo-Norman literature in England.

The Norman Invasion (or the Battle of Hastings) in 1066

500

This author wrote about the dangers of censorship in the 17th century.

John Milton

500

The Canterbury Tales is this type of satire.

Estates satire

500

These TWO 18th-century poets wrote about how women should act.

Alexander Pope and Anne Ingram