Oral exam Lit BR L3 LIG S5

Sir Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

• 1st cousin to Anne Boleyn

• Lived in Fr w Henry VIII

• was charged w treason => imprisoned and executed

• his work = very often associated with that of Wyatt

• dvped the Shakespearean sonnet

• wrote Songes ad Sonetts w Wyatt (to show the value of the En lg)

Shakespearean sonnet

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Sir Thomas Wyatt

• aristocrat as Surrey

• Traveled in FR and IT

• translated soiritual songs and psalms in EN

• Songes and Sonetts with SurreyWhat d

What does NOLI ME TANEGERE

Don’t touch me

Sir Arthur Gorges

• EN sea captain, poet, translator

• MP

meaning of ZEAL

ENTHUSIASM

Sir Philip Sidney

• aristocrat

• Astrophil and Stella

• part of the sonnet craze of 1590s as the authority w Watson (the precusor) and Samuel Daniel (the master)

• translated psalms as Wyatt and Anne Lock

• 1590 = Interiority and Anatomy (through organs and physiology) + theory of humour and Aristotle’s four elements

Astrophil and StellA

italian name

• Astrophil = love stars greek

• stella = stars latin

Samuel Daniel

• standerdised the sonnet

• sonnet craze of 1590s (by a man to a woman, title with A, idealisation)

• Delia (1592)

Michael Drayton

• wrote abt interiority

• Interiority and anatomy

• Idea

Meaning TO BREED UP

TO REPRODUCE

Barnabe Barnes

Wrote Parthenophil and Parthenohe to:

• warn vs the dangers of LOVE

• love potion to intoxicate/ drug her and make love to her

• the love wound caused by Cupid’s arrow

• Renouncing to love on Earth for love to GOD

Meaning SLUMBER

THE SLEEP

Meaning VULCAN

ROMAN GOD OF FIRE, VOLCANOES, DESERTS, FORGE

Meaning CUNNING

TRICKINESS

Richard Barnfied

• En poet

• relationship w SH

• he distances in his work from the homoeroticism of his previous work

Meaning SPANGS

GLITTERS

Edmund Spenser

• invented the Scottish sonnet (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE)

• The Shepheards Calendar (how to improve the EN lg by imitating FR and IT and LATIN)

• Paradoxes of EN IT (Catho vs Prot+ imitators of imitators)

what does Amoretti mean?

LITTLE LOVE GIFTS IN ITALIAN

YE LEAVES

THE LEAVES

BROOK

RUISSEAU

FLIT

FLY

WAIL

MOAN

WOES

MALHEUR

MIRTH

JOY

Sir Walter Raleigh

• one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era

• played a leading part in EN colonisation of NTH AM

• statesman (PM)

FETTERED

ENTRAVE ENCHAINE

FARE

TARIF

Shakespeare

1564-1616

• Hamlet 1600-1

• Othello 1604

• King Lear 1605

• Macbeth 1606

Mary Wroth

• noblewoman

• same family as Sidney (niece

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

Pamphilia = Queen

Amphilanthus = Lover

abt disappontment in Love

THE FIRST LONG FICTION BY AN ENGLISHWOMAN

HINDER

ENTRAVER GENER

CUNNINGLY

ASTUCIEUSEMENT

What is a meditation + steps

• dvep from 12th onwards

The steps:

1) The preparatory steps -composition of place = a visualisation

2) Meditation itself = Consideration of the Bible practices

3) Colloquies= the soul speaking intimatedly w God and expressing its passion and thanksfulness

meaning TRIBULATION

MISADVENTURES

Meaning DROSSY

GRAS

George Herbert

• poet and priest of the Church of England

• metaphysical poet

meaning AGUE

TREMBLE

meaning QUARRIES

CARRIERES

meaning DREGS

RESIDUS

Milton

Paradise Lost in blank verse = religious story/poem

meaning HASTING

HÂTE

meaning CHIDE

REPRIMAND

meaning METHOUGHT

IL ME SEMBLAIT

Who’s ALCESTIS

Princess in G mythology who returned from the dead

Who’s Jove?

JUPITER

Milton mourns the loss of his wife, Katharine Woodcock, and alludes to the myth of Alcestis, a Greek princess who was rescued from the underworld and brought back to earth by Heracles or Hercules, son of Jove or Zeus