Coleridge writes that this author of Elegiac Sonnets and [William] Bowles "are they who first made the Sonnet popular among the present English," and that he was "justified therefore by analogy in deducing its laws from their compositions.”
Who is Charlotte Smith?
100
This character's familiy motto is "beware the bear"--perhaps it should have been, "beware the bar!"
What is Baron Bradwardine?
100
This is the term for a stressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable:
What is spondee?
100
As Abba observes, at this location, "Napoleon did surrender, Oh yeah," and the singer [has] also met [her] "destiny in quite a similar way," since "the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself."
What is Waterloo?
100
This area of Scotland was particularly associated with “manly man” Catholics:
What are the highlands?
200
William Hazlitt claims that for this author of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "All that he has done of moment, he had done twenty years ago: since then, he may be said to have lived on the sound of his own voice."
Who is Samuel Coleridge?
200
The "loquacious narrator" of this poem offers a detailed description of a "little muddy pond," which he has "measured ... from side to side: 'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide."
What is "The Thorn?"
200
This stanza from Felicia Hemans exemplifies this kind of stanza form:
Upon his brow he felt thir breath,
And in his waving hair;
And look'd from that lone post of death,
In still, yet brave despair.
What is ballad stanza?
200
Many women were derided as belonging to this group as unnatural women who revealed their prudishness through intellectual pursuits.
What are Bluestockings?
200
In the song, "Cam ye o'er frae France? Cam ye doon by Lunnon?Saw ye Geordie Whelps and his bonnie woman," "Georde Whelps" refers to this figure:
Who is George I?
300
Wordsworth described this supporter of regicide as having a soul "like a star" which "dwelt apart," and "a voice whose sound was like the sea; pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."
Who is John Milton?
300
This character wrote the manuscript, "A Dissent from Dissenters, or the Comprehension Confuted; shewing the impossibilty of of any composition between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any Description; illustrated from the Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, and the soundest controversial Divines."
Who is Pembroke?
300
As reflected in poets such as John Dryden and Alexander Pope, this term describes late 17th/18th c. artists who looked to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations for models:
What is Neoclassicism?
300
This group refused to swear allegiance to William because they believed their promise to James II was still in force:
What are nonjurors?
300
According to Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce offered the inspiring words of "Scots wha hae" in his march to this place:
What is Bannockburn?
400
This outspoken author wrote texts such as Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters and The Female Reader, earning from Horace Walpole the description of a "hyena in petticoats."
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
This "character" "turns from Europe's desolated shores" and "shouts to the mingled tribes from sea to sea,/And swears--Thy world, Columbus, shall be free."
Who is Genius?
400
This type of novel was generated as a critical response to the French Revolution:
What is anti-jacobin novel?
400
According to the 1689 "Bill of Rights," the English monarch cannot rule if he is this type of person, or married to this type of person:
What is a Catholic?
400
In this agreement between the English Parliament and Scottish Presbyterians, the Scottish agree to help against Charles I if England adopts Scottish church government:
what is the solemn league and covenant?
500
John Lockhart described this author's work Endymion as composed of "calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy," and the author himself as "merely a young Cockney rhymester, dreaming a fantastic dream at the full of the moon."
Who is John Keats?
500
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The figure pictured here dreamed an angel told him he would have God as his father and never want joy if he were a good little boy:
500
As observed in the OED assignment, this English word comes from the Gaelic "usquebaugh," which means "water of life."
What is whiskey? (If Jesus calls himself the source of "living water," does that mean ...)
500
Place the following monarchs in chronological order: Anne, Charles II, George I, William III.
What is Charles II, William III, Anne, George I?
500
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This song, "The news frae Moidart," describes events that took place in this year: