Paradise Lost
This cardinal direction, which inspired the title for a Steinbeck novel, is where Adam and Eve head after being expelled from Eden.
What is east?
This ailment caused Milton to compose Paradise Lost primarily via dictation.
What is blindness?
This poet and playwright is the most famous of the Early Modern writers.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This university's name is part of the name of the US capitol and a South American country
What is Columbia?
This genre typical of classical literature is the form in which Paradise Lost is written
What is an epic?
Of the guardian angels, he brandishes a sword and is responsible for exiling Adam and Eve from the garden.
Who is Michael?
Despite it being an unpopular opinion in Early Modern England, Milton supported this marital issue
What is divorce?
The English Civil War is also known by this flowery nickname
What is the War of the Roses?
The mascot for this university is a pilgrim
This term refers to one piece of work gesturing toward or referencing another indirectly
What is allusion?
Paradise Lost served as the prototext for this foundational monster novel written by Shelly
What is Frankenstein?
John Milton studied at this English university
What is Cambridge?
The Early Modern Era defines the period from 1500-1800, before the invention and adoption of this literary form
What is the novel?
This university recently changed its name, eliding a prepositional phrase clarifying its location
What is Washington University (in St. Louis)?
Often used in courses to describe Shakespeare's poetry, this meter refers to the poetic foot of two syllables, alternating between stressed and unstressed in a ten syllable line
This is the name for the parliament the outcasted angels create in Hell
What is Pandemonium?
In Lycidas, John Milton laments the death of Edward King by this cause
What is drowning/shipwreck?
After multiple uprisings and forcing Charles II into exile, he became the Lord Protectorate of England during the Interregnum
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This university famously houses a secret society called Skull and Bones
What is Yale?
Typically used in physics discourse, this term refers to the study of the nature of the universe and its composition
What is cosmology?
In the battle for heaven, the good angels throw this landform at the rebel angels
What is a mountain?
Milton was thrown in prison for supporting the regicide of this English king
Who is Charles I?
Many poets of the Early Modern era, perhaps most famously John Donne, are referred to by this philosophical name, characterizing their poetry as thematically engaged with examining the nature of reality
who are the Metaphysical Poets?
Though its mascot is a simple tree, this university calls its athletes "cardinals"
What is Stanford?
In this scholarly field, critics interpret a work within the context of Christian thought throughout history
What is Christian hermeneutics