Poetry Context EOYE

What was Christopher Marlowe’s job?

playwright and poet (not a shepherd)

What literary movement was Christopher Marlowe part of?

the English Renaissance

What type of poem is ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his Love’?

pastoral

What type of poem does Sonnet 130 critique?

blazons

What was Thomas Campion notable for?

setting his poetry to music

What instrument did Thomas Campion play?

lute

Was Thomas Campion a professional writer?

no

At what age and in what year did George Herbert enter the priesthood?

1629, at age 36

What was George Herbert prior to his ordination?

an orator and Parliamentarian

What was notable about George Herbert’s time as a priest?

the care he took of his parishioners

Where was Anne Bradstreet born?

England

What is Anne Bradstreet known as?

the first American poet

Did Anne Bradstreet write with the intention of publication?

no

What religion was Anne Bradstreet?

Puritan

What movement did William Blake belong to?

the Romantics

How did William Blake feel about contemporary organisations and structures?

very negatively

What tradition does ‘The Schoolboy’ belong to?

pastoral

Had William Blake lived in the countryside when he wrote ‘The Schoolboy’?

no

Where was William Wordsworth raised?

the Lake District

What is the Prelude?

an autobiographical epic poem

What literary movement did William Wordsworth belong to?

the Romantics

How was Kubla Khan composed?

it came to Coleridge in a dream

What substance did Coleridge depend on?

opium

What literary movement did Coleridge belong to?

the Romantics

What was the relationship between Coleridge and Wordsworth?

they were friends and worked on an epic poem together

Who is the subject of ‘She Walks in Beauty’?

Anne Beatrix Wilmot

What was Anne Beatrix Wilmot’s relationship to Byron?

she was his cousin’s wife

What literary movement did Byron belong to?

the Romantics

What were the Georgian beauty standards?

fair hair and light eyes

A walk in which town inspired ‘To Autumn’?

Winchester

What literary movement did John Keats belong to?

the Romantics

Which fellow poet was Elizabeth Barrett Browning married to?

Robert Browning

What was the reaction of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s father to her marriage?

he disapproved greatly and disinherited her

What religion did Elizabeth Barrett Browning follow?

Congregationalism, a subsect of Protestantism

Where did Emily Brontë live?

Howarth, North Yorkshire

What literary movement did Emily Brontë belong to?

the Romantics

What type of poem is ‘Remembrance’?

a Gondal poem

Who is the speaker in ‘Remembrance’?

Queen Rosina, a fictional character

What was Emily Brontë’s experience with grief?

her mother and two of her sisters died during her childhood

When was ‘The Darkling Thrush’ written?

at the end of 1900

What was Thomas Hardy’s relationship with religion?

he was raised somewhat Anglican and flirted with Baptism in adulthood, but never reached any concrete belief system

What is the alternative title of ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’?

‘Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’

Who were Yeats’ main romantic interests?

Maud Gonne, and her daughter Iseult Gonne

Did either of the Gonnes reciprocate Yeats’ interest?

no

What were W.B. Yeats’ main literary influences?

the Romantics and the Pre-Raphaelites