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60 Cards in this Set
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1603
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Elizabeth I dies, James I crowned
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1605
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Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes Day
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1607
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Jamestown settlement in VA
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1609
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Shakespeare's sonnets published
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1611
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King James Bible published
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1616
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Shakespeare dies
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1620
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Plymouth Plantation, MA
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1623
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First Folio Published
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1625
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James I dies, Charles I crowned
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1649
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Charles I beheaded, Puritan Commonwealth begins
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1660
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Puritan Commonwealth ends, exiled Charles II returns to England
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1665
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Black Plague
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1666
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London Fire
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1667
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Milton's Paradise Lost published
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1685
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Charles II dies, James II crowned
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1688
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Glorious (aka "Bloodless") Revolution, James I gives up crown, William and Mary take over
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1702
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Reign William and Mary ends, Anne takes over
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1707
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Great Britain and Scotland unite
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1714
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Reign of Anne ends, reign of the Hanovers begins, starting with King George I
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1741
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Samuel Richardson's "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" published. 1st novel.
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verisimilitude
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piling up of realistic detail so that what is imaginary appears to have actually happened
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metaphysical poetry
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poetry that uses conceits to compare one TOTALLY unlikely object to another
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conceit
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extended metaphor
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mock epic
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a poem, not necessarily long, but follows the format of an epic (with argument, invocation, and begins in medias res sometimes)
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Playwrite, published Shakespeare's First Folio, recited "neck verse" to save himself (wrote "Still to Be Neat)
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Ben Jonson
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To Althea, from Prison
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Richard Lovelace
"Stone walls to not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" |
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To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
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Richard Lovelace
"True, a new mistress now I chase, the first foe in the field" |
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Great Cavalier poet, imprisoned, loyal to the King.
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Richard Lovelace
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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Robert Herrick
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" |
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Delight in Disorder
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Robert Herrick
"A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness" |
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Vicar, lost his parish when Puritans came to power. Best cavalier poet, a "son of Ben"
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Robert Herrick
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Song
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John Donne
"Go and catch a falling star, get with child a mandrake root" |
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The Bait
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John Donne
"Come live with me and be my love", compares wife to fish |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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John Donne
compares love to a compass, the love is something more |
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Sonnet 10
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John Donne
"Death be not proud" (death dies when people die because they will rise again) |
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Sonnet 14
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John Donne
Paradoxical--God, you must break me down in order to get to me, I want you too do so. "Batter my heart, three personded God" |
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Meditation 17
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John Donne
"for whom the bell tolls" be concerned when someone dies because you are part of the church, one body, and thus you are dying as well |
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Great poet and preacher, Catholic, huge metaphysical poet
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John Donne
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To His Coy Mistress
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Andrew Marvell
"Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady were no crime." "The grave's a fine and private place, but non i think do there embrace" "thus though we cannot make our sun stand stil yet we will make him run" I'd woo you if I had time, but we don't and we'll soon be dead, so let's go for it |
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Puritan writer, carpe diem
John Milton's assistant, saved Milton from imprisonment/execution |
Andrew Marvell
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Went blind, dictated his work to his daughters
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John Milton
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Wrote a diary in code, Secretary to the Admiral of the Navy. Worked in the navy office, lived in london.
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Samuel Pepys
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Satirist
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Jonathan Swift
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Famous newspaper man, wrote periodicals, etc. such as The Spectator Club
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Richard Steele
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Will Wimble
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Joseph Addison
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A Whig, member of parlaiment, wrote the Spectator, etc.
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Joseph Addison
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The Education of Women
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Daniel Defoe
"Women should be educated in their own academy" which is like a jail, etc. but women do have brains. |
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unscrupulous, wrote a song wall in the stocks, which the people sang to him.
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Daniel Defoe (also wrote Robinson Crusoe, Journal of the Plague Year)
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Had tuberculosis of the spine, just over 4 feet tall, called the wasp of Twickenham
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Alexander Pope
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The Rape of the Lock
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Alexander Pope
(slyphs, Belinda, Baron, etc.) |
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An Essay on Man
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Alexander Pope (in rhymed couplets) "Know then thyself, presume no God to scan; the proper study of mankind is Man"
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An Essay on Criticism
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Alexander Pope
"To err is human, to forgive divine" |
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Dictionary
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Samuel Johnson
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messy eater, had someone write a biography about him, hated the Scots
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Samuel Johnson
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Wrote Samuel Johnson's biography
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James Boswell (Scottish)
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Johnson nature of human beings and pity
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Pity is not natural to man, savages and children are cruel, so human nature is this way. We aren't really that sympathetic
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Johnson on Eating
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Gluttenous, paid attentino to the food, not temperate in eather eating or drinking. He could refrain but not use moderately. Eating habits not fit for company.
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Johnson on Slavery
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He remarks how the Americans enslave other humans yet cry out for their own liberty and justice and freedom from tyranny
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allegory
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an extended metaphor that can personify ideas or things in order to represent an abstract idea
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satire
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biting, sarcastic, etc.
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