English Literature Authors (1300-1500s)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Geoffrey Chaucer | 3rd best British author behind Shakespeare and Milton; The Canterbury Tales: |
| John Skelton | Most important Renaissance poet; The Bowge of Courte (satire on court of Henry VIII), Garlande of Laurell (self-laundatory allegorical poem), Collyn Clout (complaint against ecclesiastics' misdeeds), and Magnfycence (an example of a morality play) |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | First to write in blank verse; Virgil's Aeneid, invented the English sonnet!!! |
| Arthur Golding | Translator of Latin and French works; Translated: For Ovid, Commentaries of Caesar |
| George Gasciogne | influence has been overshadowed by other Elizabethan poets; The Fruit of Warres, Pleasant Tale of Hermetes the Hereintei |
| Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queen (most famous work; longest epic poem in English; purposely archaic English such as Cant. Tales): allegorical presentation of virtues by Arthurian knights |
| Richard Hooker | Anglican Theologian; Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie: a defense of the Anglican church against the Puritans |
| Philip Sidney | One of the Elizabethan's age most prominent figures; Astrophil and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (an apology for poetry, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Helped colonize Roanoke; Sent 2nd expedition under John White; "Silver Poet" of his era, Historie of the World, "What is Our Life", "The Lie" |
| Sir Frances Bacon | Leader of scientific revolution; Baconian method: inductive methodology; De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium (1. discover truth 2. serve church 3. serve country), A Declaration of the Practices and Treasons..., Essays |
| William Shakespeare | Greatest writer ever known; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer's Night Dream |
| Thomas Nashe | English Elizabethan Pamphleteer; Summers Last Will and Testament, The Isle of Dogs: lost satirical comedy, "The Unfortunate Traveller. Or The Life of Jacke Wilton" |
| John Donne | founder of the Metaphysical group of poets; Love/sensual poems; The Relic, The Ecstacy, A Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day |
| Ben Jonson | Volpone, The Alchemist, On My First Sonnet (epigram on 10 year old son's plague death), The Case is Altered |
| Elizabeth Cary | First English woman playwright; "The Tragedy of Miriam" |
| Robert Herrick | "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (carpe diem form) |
| George Herbert | Wrote many religious poems (some used as hymns); A Priest to the Temple (or The Country Parson), Jacula Prudentium, Temple |
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