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The Bard
John Milton
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Elizabeth Barret Browning
100
The years that Shakespeare lived.
What is 1564-1616?
100
These are the years that John Milton lived.
What is 1608-1674?
100
William Blake lived during these years.
What are 1757-1827?
100
William Wordsworth lived during these years.
What are 1770-1850?
100
The years that EBB lived.
What are 1806-1861?
200
He wrote this many poems.
What is 150?
200
Milton wrote not only poems, but he also wrote these about the harsh English government of his day.
What are essays about current events?
200
Poem, in Blake's poetry, was also referred to as this.
What is a song?
200
Wordsworth wrote this kind of poem which he entitled his poetry book from 1798.
What is a lyrical ballad?
200
This problem gave EBB plenty of time to read and write.
What is being sick much of her life from a horseback riding accident?
300
This play is about a guy who wants to become the Scottish king through deceit.
What is Macbeth?
300
A poem that is very long and tells a historical story.
What is an epic poem?
300
Blake considered these 2 things inseparable. He called this method "illuminated printing".
What is combining poetry with and illustrations?
300
Poetry filled with the spirit of nature, freedom, and the imagination, and written to be enjoyed by everyone.
What is Romanticism?
300
She fell in love with this famous poet.
Who is Robert Browning?
400
They said these lines to each other in this play: "Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I say goodnight till it be 'morrow."
What is Romeo and Juliet?
400
This poem by Milton was about the fall of Adam and Eve from the Bible.
What is Paradise Lost?
400
Blake claimed to see this immortal out his window.
Who is God?
400
"Lively and with energy" is a vocabulary term from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
What is sprightly?
400
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of sonnets that express this emotion.
What is love?
500
Straford-on-Avon
What is the famous playhouse in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed?
500
Poems that have no rhymes but have rules about line length and structure.
What is blank verse?
500
"Laughing Song" comes from Blake's poetry collection called this.
What is Songs of Innocence and of Experience?
500
He didn't follow through with this because of money problems and the war between England and France.
What is get married?
500
She is called this because her husband said that she had brown skin as if she had been born in a warm sunny place like Portugal.
What is my little Portuguese?