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- first popular Victorian novelist
- Dickens
- physical background of a work
- setting
- John Milton wrote
- Paradise Lost
- "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"
- Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- an earlier popular ballad
- Bonnie Barbara Allen
- the first anglo-saxon literature
- poetry
- the founder of English literature
- Venerable Bede
- two lines rhyming together
- couplet
- wrote Amazing Grace
-
Newton
- wrote Hamlet
- Shakespeare
- wrote the Cantebury Tales
- Geoffery Chaucer
- ridicule of human folly
- satire
- a teaching by Karl Marx
- neo-orthodoxy
- Faerie Queen was written by
- Spencer
- wrote the Book of Martyrs
- Foxe
- John Bunyan wrote
- Pilgrim's Progress
- the Pearl Poet wrote
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- the invisible man was written by who, and belonged to what series
-
Chesterton
and the Father Brown Mysteries - Moore wrote
- Utopia
- Bunyan wrote
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Swift wrote
- Gulliver's Travels
- classic love song
- pastoral
- book published by Wordsworth and Coeleridge
- Lyrical Ballads
- wrote My Utmost, and Glorious of a Morning Sky
- Chambers
- a fourteen lined poet
- sonnet
-
"beauty is true,
true beauty" - Keats, Ode on A Graecian Urn
- a play that ends happily
- comedy
- England's first poet-lauriat
- Johnson
- works were shaped by an overpowering idea
- Keats
- "Tis better to loved and lost than to never have loved at all"
- Tennyson, In Memoriam
- God seen as nature
- pantheism
- Pride and Prejudice
- written by Jane Austen
- "Tiger, Tiger burning bright"
- Blake, Tiger
- greatest epic in English literature
- Paradise Lost
- English national epic
- Beowulf
- first essayist in English literature
- Bacon
- speech by one character alone
- soliliquy
- apostle to the skeptics
- Lewis
- Conrad wrote
- Heart of Darkness
- characterized a great mark of modern fiction
- secularism
- struggle between forces
- conflict
- Yeats wrote what
- Second Coming
- Joyce is known for his
- stream of conciousness
- the Deserted Vilage is written by
- Goldsmith
- most influential economist
- John Keynes
- Daniel Defoe wrote
- Robinson Crusoe
- Richardson wrote
- Pamela
- "Shall i compare thee to a summer day"
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 43
- didn't speak english until he was 21
- Conrad
- first developed in North America
- short story
- native of Poland
- John Conrad
- during the first world war he stationed troops in Africa
- Chambers
- First English poet
- Caedmon
- greatest master of languages since Milton
- Joyce
- the main character is known as
- protagonist
- first person described in the prologueof Cantebury Tales
- Knight
- expressed almost entirely throughout poetry
- Romanticism
- the anglo-saxon poets were called
- Scops
- a satire on communism
- Animal Farm
- calls his novels fables
- Golding
- "If winter comes can spring be far behind"
- Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
- wrote Hidden Years of Nazareth
- Morgan
- Spurgeon wrote
- Treasury of David
- central idea of a work
- theme
- reached its highest peak in the Elizabethan period
- drama
- "Water, water everywhere nor a drop to drink"
- Coelridge, The Rim of Ancient Modern
- an anglo-saxon metaphor
-
kenning
example is whale road
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- blank verse
- the poet of nature
- Wordsworth
- type of Elizabethan song
- Madriol
- the Prince of Preachers was
- Charles Spurgeon
- Scotland's greatest poet
- Burns