Period
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Title
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Type
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Author
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Answer
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Anglo-Saxon (731)
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"Ecclesiastical History of the British Nation"
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Historical Nonfiction
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Venerable Bede
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Anglo-Saxon (c. 750)
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"_____"
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Epic Poem
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Anonymous
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Beowulf
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Anglo-Saxon (c. 9th cen.)
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"Dream of the Rood"
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Christian/Dream Poem
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Cynewulf
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Anglo-Saxon (840-c.900)
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Translations into English, including "Ecclesiastical History...", directed writing of "The Ango-Saxon Chronicle"
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Old English Translations
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King Alfred
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Medieval (c. 14th cen.)
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"Sir ____ and the ____ _____"
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Alliterative Arthurian Poem
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usually attributed to the Pearl Poet
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Medieval (c. 1369-1380s)
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"Troilus and Criseyde", "The House of Fame", and "The Book of the Duchess"
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Poems from the author's French and Italian style periods
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Medieval (c. 1370-1390)
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"Piers Plowman"; full title "The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman"
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Alliterative Allegorical Poem
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William Langland
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Medieval (c. 1386)
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"The _______ _____"
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Poem made up of 24 stories in verse and prose
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
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Medieval (c. 1469)
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"Le Morte Darthur"
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Arthurian prose
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Sir ____ _____
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Sir Thomas Malory
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Medieval (c. 1470)
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"______"; characters include: Death, Good Deeds, and Kindred
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Allegorical morality play
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Anonymous
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Everyman
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Tudor (1516)
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"_____"; full title translated from Latin: "Of a republic's best state and of the new island ______"
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Fiction, political philosophy, humanism
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Sir Thomas More
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Utopia
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Elizabethan (c. 1577-1585)
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"Arcadia" a pastoral romance; and "The Defence of Poesy" a literary criticism
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Prose
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Elizabethan (c. 1580s)
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"The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and "Dr. Faustus"
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Poem, Drama
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Christopher Marlowe
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Elizabethan (c. 1580-1584)
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"______ and ______"
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Sequence of Petrarchan Sonnets
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Astrophel and Stella
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Elizabethan (c.1580-90s)
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"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and "Farewell, False Love"
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Poetry
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Elizabethan (c. 1590-1596)
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"The Faerie Queene"
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Epic allegorical poem
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Edmund Spenser
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Jacobean (c. 1605-1610)
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"Volpone, or The Fox" and "The Alchemist"
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Drama, "Comedy of Humors"
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Ben Jonson
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Jacobean (1611)
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"The King James Version"
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Bible in English vernacular
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based heavily on the translations by _____ _____
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William Tyndale
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Jacobean (c. 1612 - 1625)
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"Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Truth", and "Of Riches"
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Essays, philosophy
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Francis Bacon
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Caroline Age (c. 1630s)
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"Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?", "The Constant Lover", and "Ballad Upon a Wedding"
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Poetry, drama
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Cavelier Poet: Sir ___ _______
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Sir John Suckling
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Caroline Age (c. 1630s)
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"An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne"
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Elegy
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Cavelier Poet: _____ ____
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Thomas Carew
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Caroline Age (1637)
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"______", written in memory of Milton's friend, Edward King, who drowned at sea
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Pastoral Elegy
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John Milton
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Lycidas
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Caroline Age (1642 & 1649)
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"To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
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Poetry
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Cavelier Poet: _____ ______
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Richard Lovelace
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Caroline Age (1648)
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"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"
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Carpe Diem Poem
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Cavelier Poet: ______ _______
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Robert Herrick
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Jacobean (c. 1609-1631)
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"Death Be Not Proud", "Go and Catch a Falling Star", "The Canonization", and "The Flea"
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Metaphysical Poetry
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Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
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John Donne
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Jacobean (c. 1620-1633)
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"The Collar" and "Virtue"
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Metaphysical Poetry
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Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
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George Herbert
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Interregnum (c. 1640s)
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"To His Coy Mistress"
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Metaphysical Poem
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Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
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Andrew Marvell
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