RENAISSANCE All Lecture BCS-45

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THE
RENAISSANCE
(1500 – 1660)
Why This Class?
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01
Which of the following is not written
by Geoffrey Chaucer?
A. The Book of the Duchess
B. The Name of the Rose
C. The House of Fame
D. The Canterbury Tales.
02
The years between _____ are known as
Jacobean Era.
A. 1625 - 1649
B. 1603 - 1625
C. 1558 - 1578
D. 1603 - 1626
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03 The longest literary period of English

Literature was -
A. Neo-classical Period
B. The Renaissance
C. Anglo- Saxon Period
D. Middle English Period
04 Find the odd one out:
A. G. B Shaw
B. Oscar Wilde
C. John Millington Synge
D. Samuel Beckett
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05 Find the odd one out:
A. Franz Kafka
B. Charles Baudelaire
C. Gabriel García Márquez
D. Henrik Ibsen
06 "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" is a quote from ...
A. William Shakespeare
B. Venerable Bede
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Caedmon
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07 The earliest sample of English prose is ….
A. Beowulf
B. Juliana
C. Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
D. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
08 Which of the following is a French Writer?
A. Henrik Ibsen.
B. Charles Baudelaire.
C. Anton Chekhov.
D. Arthur Miller
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09 Chaucer was not a/an…..
A. Parliamentarian.
B. Novelist
C. Epic Poet
D. Diplomat
10 ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is:
A. A collection of poems.
B. A collection of short stories.
C. A collection of fables.
D. A collection of limericks
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Contents
01 Previous Years’ Questions

How many, How frequent, 02 Elizabethan Age
Characteristics,
What Type of Questions Why Important
Selected Poets Miscellaneous

03 Poets’ Bio, Literary
Works, Quotes
04 Practice, Suggestions
and Interactions
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Previous Years’ Questions
BCS & Others
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Questions
23 Questions William Shakespeare

35th BCS to 44th BCS Preliminary Christopher Marlowe
Ben Johnson
Lines from Plays

About Poets, Identify Poets
Works of Poets
Questions
❑ সিসিয়র অসিিার, িমসিত িাত ব্াাংক সিয়য়াগ ২০২১।
❑ খাদ্্ অসিদ্প্তর সিয়য়াগ পরীক্ষা ২০২১।
❑ িহকারী পসরচালক, পািয়পার্ট ও ইসময়েশি অসিদ্প্তর ২০১১।
❑ ব্সিগত কমটকতটা, সপএিসি িি-ক্াডার সিয়য়াগ পরীক্ষা ২০২২।
❑ উচ্চমাি িহকারী, ববিরকাসর সবমাি চলাচল কততটপক্ষ ২০২১।
❑ িাইিার অসিিার, পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় ২০১২।
❑ িহকারী থািা সশক্ষা অসিয়ার সিয়য়াগ ২০১২।
❑ অসিি িহায়ক, সবসিএি প্রশািি একায়ডসম সিয়য়াগ পরীক্ষা ২০২১।
❑ বচইিম্াি, বাাংলায়দ্শ পসরিাংখ্াি বয্য়রা ২০২১।
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02
Elizabethan Age
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
1500 1660
❑ The Preparation of Renaissance.
❑ The Elizabethan Age.
❑ The Jacobean Age.
❑ The Puritan Age.
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THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Preparation The The The

of Elizabethan Jacobean Puritan
Renaissance Age Age Age
(?? - ??) (?? - ??) (?? - ??) (?? - ??)
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THE RENAISSANCE
REBIRTH.
RE-BIRTH OF WHAT?
❑Anthropocentrism,
❑Humanism,
1453
❑Rationalism,
❑Nationalism, “Man is the measure
❑Aestheticism of all things".
❑Scientific spirit.
Characteristics
Religious Tolerance &
Secularism
Aestheticism Classical
Learning
“There is only one Christ,
Jesus, one faith. All else is
a dispute over trifles.”
Nationalism
“Fear not, we are of the Humanism Spirit of
nature of the lion…” (Anthropocentrism) Adventure
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Preparation of
Renaissance
Tottel's Miscellany (???)
• The first printed anthology of English poetry. (কাব্িাংকলি)
• Henry Howard and Sir Thomas Wyatt
• First English Sonneteer : ????
Cont.
Utopia Ralph Roister Doister Gorboduc
▪ 1516 ▪ 1561 ,
▪ Nicholas Udall
also first in blank verse.
▪ Sir Thomas Moore
▪ First English Comedy
▪ Also known as
▪ Utopia means ???. Ferrexand Porrex
▪ Thomas Sackville &

Thomas Norton
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The Elizabethan Age

• The Golden Age of English Drama and Literature.
• The Virgin Queen.
• "A good face is the best letter of recommendation."
• “Men fight wars, women win them.”
• “A clear and innocence conscience fears nothing.”
Renaissance
Masters
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William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Johnson Francis Bacon
Sir Philip Sydney The University Wits John Donne George Chapman
•The Faerie Queenee : Allegorical Epic Poem.

•Astrophel : Pastoral Elegy.
•The Shepheard’s Calendar. (first)
•The Ruins of Time
Edmund Spenser
•Amoretti (sonnet)
•Epithalamion , Prothalamion
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“…he that strives to touch the stars

Oft stumbles at a straw.”
“Sleep after Toil,

Port after stormy Seas,
Ease after War,
Death after Life,
does greatly please.”
“For there is nothing lost,

that may be found,
if sought.” Edmund Spenser
•Shakespeare’s predecessor, a University Wit.

•First playwright to use blank verse successfully.
•Developed one-man tragedies.
Four Major Tragedies: Christopher Marlowe
•Tamburlaine the Great (1564 – 1593)
•Doctor Faustus
•The Jew of Malta
•Edward II
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•Central Character: Faustus

•Antagonist: Mephistophilis
ডক্টর ফস্টাসকে ক্রিকস্টাফার মাক্লার সর্ লকেষ্ঠ রচনা ক্রিকসকর্ ধরা িয়। একে
ল নাটে ক্রিসাকর্ ধরা িয়।
এক্র্জাকর্থীয় যুকের সর্কচকয় ক্রর্তক্রেত
নাটকের নায়ে ডক্টর জন ফস্টাস। ক্রতক্রন আইন, ক্রচক্রেৎসা শাস্ত্রসি সর্ ক্রর্ষকয়
পারদশী। জাদু ক্রর্দ্যা ক্রশখকত ক্রেকয় শয়তাকনর োকে ক্রনকজর আত্মা ক্রর্ক্রি েকরন
ক্রতক্রন। চক্রিশ র্ের ধকর সে্ প্রোর আশা-আোাংক্ষা পূরণ এর্াং জ্ঞান্াকের
ক্রর্ক্রনমকয় শয়তানকে তার আত্মা ক্র্কখ দদন। তার সঙ্গী িয় শয়তান
দমক্রফকস্টাকফক্র্স। আক্ক্সান্ডার দ্য দেট, দিক্ন, অ্যাক্ররকস্টাট্ সি অ্কনে প্রাচীন
দাশলক্রনকের সাকথ দদখা েকরন ফস্টাস। নানা প্রক্ােকনও জক্রিকয় পকিন। চক্রিশ
র্ের দশকষ তার আত্মা িরকণর জন্য আকস শয়তান। তখন ক্রতক্রন বুঝকত পাকরন, েত
র্ি ভু্টাই না েকরকেন !
“ Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.”
• “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”

• “It is a comfort to the wretched // To have companions in misery”
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The University Wits
LyLy Peele Marlowe

Eupheus, the Anatomy of Wit
Kyd Nashe Greene

The Spanish Tragedy • The Unfortunate Traveler • Friar Bacon
• Pierce Penniless • The History of Orlando
• Groats-Worth of Wit
•Comedy of Humors , Father of Realistic Comedy

•Volponeor the Fox: His most famous work
•Volpone is a beast fable or city comedy.
Other works:
•Every Man in His Humors,
Poems:
•Every Man Out of His Humor,
•The Alchemist , • Epigrams
Ben Johnson •The Tale of Tub,
• To Celia
•The Silent Woman
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•Father of English Essay. Natural Philosopher.

•Father of Modern English Prose
•Known for clear, lucid, terse style of writing.
•Of Marriage and Single Life
•Of Truth
•Of Study
•Of Friendship
•Of Love
•The Advancement of Learning
•Novum Organum Francis Bacon
•The New Atlantis (Novel) 1561 - 1626
• “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

• “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
• "Knowledge itself is power.”
• “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
• "Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but
not always best subjects".
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• Poet of Love, The Metaphysical Poet

• The Good Morrow
• The Sun Rising
• For Whom The Bell Tolls
Sir Philip Sydney • The Canonization John Donne
• An Apology for Poetry (or The Defenceof Poesy)• The Flea, The Bait
• A Valediction
• Arcadia (pastoral romance)
• Go Catch a Falling Star
• Astrophel and Stella (sonnet sequence)
And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
“Death is an ascension to a better library. ”

• The Duchess of Malfi
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
• The White Devil.
John Webster
• To His Coy Mistress

• The Garden
• The Definition of Love George Chapman
• Rival Poet of Shakespeare
Andrew Marvell
• Translator of Homer
“Had we but world enough and time, • Play: BussyD'Ambois (tragedy)
This coyness, lady, were no crime. • Caesar and Pompey
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
………………………………………….
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; ❑ Robert Herrick
And yonder all before us lie ❑ John Suckling
Deserts of vast eternity. ❑ Richard Lovelace
………………………………………….”
❑ George Herbert
❑ Henry Vaughn
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• Epic Poet, Puritan Intellectual and Civil Servant.

• Pamphleteer and Publicist
• The Lady of the Christ.
• The Greatest English Author
• The Great Master of Blank Verse.
• First Poetical Work: On the Morning of the Christ’s Nativity.

• First Published Work: : L’ Allegro
Epics Masques Pamphlet
• Paradise Lost (1667) • Arcades

Areopagitica
• Paradise Regained. (1671) • Comus
John Milton
Tragedy Pastoral Elegy
1608 - 1674
Samson Agonistes Lycidas
• “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
• "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."
• “The mind is its own place,

and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge,

immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
• “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
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Comedies Histories Tragedies Poet

All's Well That Ends Well Henry IV, part 1 Antony and Cleopatra The Sonnets
As You Like It Henry IV, part 2 Coriolanus A Lover's Complaint
The Comedy of Errors Henry V Hamlet The Rape of Lucrece
Cymbeline Henry VI, part 1 (First Julius Caesar Venus and Adonis
Play)
Love's Labor’s Lost Henry VI, part 2 King Lear Funeral Elegy by W.S.
Measure for Measure Henry VI, part 3 Macbeth The Passionate Pilgrim
The Merry Wives of Henry VIII Othello
Windsor
The Winter's Tale King John Romeo and Juliet
Two Gentlemen of Verona Richard II Timon of Athens
Twelfth Night Richard III Titus Andronicus
The Merchant of Venice Troilus and Cressida
A Midsummer Night's The Sonnets
Dream ➢ Total 154 poems
Much Ado About Nothing ➢ 126 of them are
Pericles, Prince of Tyre addressed to a
The Taming of the Shrew young man
The Tempest (Last Play) ➢ 28 of them are
addressed to a
‘Dark Lady’
Tragicomedies / Problem Plays:

➢ All's Well that Ends Well,
➢ The Merchant of Venice
➢ Measure for Measure
➢ Troilus and Cressida
➢ The winter’s Tale
➢ Timon of Athens
Christopher Marlow (1564 – 1593)
➢ English playwright, poet and translator
➢ The most popular tragedian of his days.
➢ Started using great heroic characters in his plays
➢ Used blank verse (AwgÎvÿi Q›`) in his writing
➢ Known as the father of English Dramatic Poetry
➢ Used Medieval(ga¨hyMxq) morality drama form
➢ Worked as an agent for the throne, Charged for atheism and blasphemy
➢ Stabbed to death
Major Works:
Plays:
➢ The Jew of Malta (parody of Machiavelli)
➢ Edward the Second,
➢ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
➢ Tamburlaine the Great
Poetry:
➢ The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
➢ Hero and Leander
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599)
➢ English poet,
➢ Best known for his fantastical allegorical works
➢ Known as the Prince of Poets

Major Works:
➢ The Sheapheards' Calendar
➢ The Faerie Queene (1591, long narrative epic poem, completed in six books)
➢ Amoretti (collection of sonnets)
➢ Epithalamion
➢ Prothalamion
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586)
➢ Poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier
➢ Known for the first literary criticism in English (The Defence of Poesy)
➢ Defended poetry against the accusation of immorality by Stephen Gossen
Major Works:
➢ Astrophel and Stella (elegy)
➢ The Defence of Poesy
(also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry)
➢ The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
➢ The Lady of May
➢ The Sidney Psalms
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
➢ Multi-faceted identity
➢ Author, Philosopher, Politician, Scientist, Jurist and Orator
➢ Very complex and compressed writing style
➢ Father of the scientific method (according to Voltaire)
➢ Father of modern English Prose

Major Works :
➢ The New Atlantis (novel)
➢ The Advancement of Learning
➢ Novum Organum
Famous Essays:
➢ Of Truth
➢ Of Revenge
➢ Of Great Place
➢ Of Study
➢ Of Plantation
➢ Of Friendship
➢ Of Atheism
➢ Of Marriage and Single Life
Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637)
➢ Playwright, Poet, and literary critic
➢ Moralist & Reformer of Drama
➢ Known for the comedy of humors
➢ Very influential for later dramatists
Major Works:
➢ Volpone
➢ Every Man in his Humor
➢ The Alchemist
➢ A Tale of a Tub
➢ The Poetaster,
➢ Epicoene, or the Silent Woman,
➢ Barclays Argenis, translated by Jonson
➢ Sejanus His Fall, (tragedy)
➢ Catiline His Conspiracy, tragedy
John Webster (1580 -1634)
Early Jacobean Dramatist
Known for morbid and dark tragedy
Major Works:
The White Devil
The Duchess of Malfi
The Devil’s Law Case (tragicomedy)
Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
➢ Known as Saint Thomas Moore
➢ Pre-Elizabethan Renaissance humanist
➢ Author, Social Philosopher, Lawyer, Statesman
➢ Secretary of King Henry VIII, later executed by him
➢ Coined the term Utopia (meaning: Nowhere)
Major Works:
➢ Utopia (1516)
➢ Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation
➢ Dialogue Concerning Heresies
➢ The Sadness of Christ

➢ The Life of Pico
Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594)
➢ Elizabethan playwright
➢ Wrote the first revenge tragedy of English literature
➢ Roommate of Christopher Marlowe
Major Works:
➢ The Spanish Tragedy (1592, first revenge tragedy)
➢ Cornelia
➢ Arden of Faversham
Walter Raleigh ➢ Writer, Poet, Soldier, ➢ The Discoverie of the

Politician, Courtier, Spy, Large, Rich and
(1552 – 1618) and explorer. Bewtiful Empyre of
Guiana
➢ One of the members of
The School of Night aka ➢ Voyages and Travels:
The School of Atheism Ancient and Modern
(including Marlowe,
➢ Ocean, to Cynthia
Chapman and Robert
Herriot) ➢ The Discovery of Guiana
Thomas Wyatt ➢ Lyrical Poet and Tottel's Miscellany

diplomat
(1503 – 1542)
➢ Credited for introducing
Sonnet in English
literature
John Fletcher ➢ Jacobean Playwright ➢ The Faithful

Shepherdess
(1579- 1625)
➢ The Woman's Prize, or
the Tamer Tamed
➢ Bonduca
➢ Valentinian
Co-written With
Shakespeare:
Henry VIII,
The Two Noble Kinsmen,

(tragicomedy)
Cardenio (tragicomedy)
Thomas Norton Co-written the first English The Tragedy of Gorboduc

tragedy play Gorboduc (cowritten, 1565)
(1532 –1584)
Mirror of the Magistrates
(only Sackville)
& Thomas Sackville
(1536 –1608)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ➢ One of the founders of Tottel's Miscellany

English Renaissance
The Defeat of Fear and Other
poetry
Studies
(1516/1517 –1547) ➢ One of the first Sonnet
writers Charting My Life
➢ Translated Virgil's
Aenied
➢ Known as Father of
English Sonnet and
blank berse, along with
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Middleton Jacobean playwright and poet. ➢ A Game at Chess
(1580 –1627) ➢ The Changeling
➢ The Revenger's
Tragedy
➢ Women Beware
Women
➢ A Chaste Maid in
Cheapside
➢ The Roaring Girl
➢ A Mad World, My
Masters
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John Donne (1572 –1631)
➢ The founder of the metaphysical school of poetry

➢ Gave up (Z¨vM Kiv) Catholic faith and entered the Anglican Church
➢ Wrote both passionate love and religious poems
➢ Known for his metaphysical conceit, extended metaphors, Wit,
Colloquial language, Wit and Intellect
Major Works:
➢ The Flea
➢ The Good Morrow
➢ Go, Catch a Falling Star
➢ The Sun Rising
➢ A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
➢ The Canonization
➢ The Bait
➢ The Holly Sonnets
George Chapman (1559 –1634)
➢ Dramatist, scholar, translator, and poet.

➢ Translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric
Batrachomyomachia.
➢ John Keats wrote a poem about his translation of Homer
➢ Considered to be Shakespeare’s rival (cÖwZØ›Øx)
Major Works:
➢ The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron,
➢ The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
➢ The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France
➢ Caesar and Pompey
➢ The Blind Beggar of Alexandria,
➢ An Humorous Day's Mirth
➢ All Fools
➢ Monsieur D'Olive
➢ The Gentleman Usher
➢ May Day
➢ The Widow's Tears
George Herbert Welsh poet, orator ➢ The Temple(first
(1593 –1633) and Anglican priest. book)
Poems:
One of the foremost ➢ The Alter
Metaphysical poets. ➢ The Collar
➢ Easter Wing
Works known for the ➢ Redemption
rich religious devotion
Abraham Cowley One of the ➢ The Grasshopper
(1618—1667) metaphysical poet
➢ On the Death of
Mr. Crawshaw
Cyril Tourneur Dramatist, diplomat, ➢ The Atheists
(1575- 1626) soldier Tragedy
➢ The Revenger’s
Tragedy
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➢ English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician

➢ Known for his creative wit, irony, wordplay and carpe diem tone
➢ Used extended metaphor with a complex logic
➢ His poems themes related seduction, lewdness and death
Major Works:
➢ To His Coy Mistress

➢ The Garden
➢ The Definition of Love
➢ Bermudas
John Suckling (1609 – 1641)
➢ English Poet, more romantic than any of his contemporaries

➢ Known for the happy and witty overtone of his poems
➢ Member of the Cavalier Poets (supporter of King Charles during the civil
war)
➢ Inventor of the card game cribbage
Major Works:
Poems:
➢ Why So Pale And Wan, Fond Lover?

➢ I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart
➢ The Constant Lover
➢ Love Turned To Hatred
Plays:
➢ Aglaura
➢ The Goblins
➢ Brennoralt, or The Discontented Colonel
Richard Lovelace (1618—1657)
➢ Another Cavalier poet and soldier

➢ Love is the major theme of his poems
Major Works:
➢ To Althea, from Prison,

➢ To Lucasta, Going to the Warres
➢ Stone Wall Do Not a Prison Make
➢ Sonnet to Gorring
➢ The Rose
➢ The Soldier (tragedy)
Robert Burton English Scholar The Anatomy of
(1577 –1640) Melancholy
Robert Herrick Lyric poet, Military Upon Julia’s Clothes

(1591 –1674) Chaplain, Cleric
Upon the Nipples of
Known for love and Julia’s Breast
sexual connotation
Hesperides
To the Virgins To Make

Much of the Time
Henry Vaughan Welsh author, Silex Scintillans

(1621 –1695) Metaphysical poet and
Physician
Known for his religious

poetry
Thomas Browne English Scholar Religio Medici
(1605 – 1682)
The Gaden of Cyrus
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John Milton (1608 – 1674)
➢ One of the greatest English literary figures of all time
➢ Poet, great scholar, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant for the English Commonwealth
➢ Born Dec 9 1608 in London in a wealthy Puritan family
➢ Educated at St. Paul's and Christ’s church, learnt classic languages
➢ Dream was to write an epic
➢ Known as ‘Lady of the Christ’s’ for his delicacy
➢ Supported Parliamentarians in the Civil War, opposed the monarchy
➢ Strongly supported the Puritan Reformation
➢ Suffered many tragedies in Life: Wife and son died in 1652, Became blind the same year,
new wife and daughter died in 1656, Went into hiding after the restoration of
monarchy, briefly imprisoned.
➢ Died November 8 1674

Major Works
➢ L'Allegro (1631)
➢ Il Penseroso (1633)
➢ Comus (a masque) (1634)
➢ Lycidas (1638)
➢ Paradise Lost (1667)
➢ Paradise Regained (1671)
➢ Samson Agonistes (1671)
➢ Areopagitica (1644)
➢ The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
John Dryden (1631 –1700)
➢ Poet, Literary critic, Translator, Playwright, Poet Laureate
➢ The major English poet of the seventeenth century, after John Donne and Milton
➢ Celebrated the Restoration of the monarchy,
➢ Often criticized as opportunist poet
➢ Established the heroic couplet in English Poetry
➢ Also known as the Father of English Criticism
➢ Converted to Catholicism after the Catholic King James ascended.
Major Poems and Works:
➢ Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
➢ Heroic Stanzas (mourned Cromwell's death)
➢ Astraea Redux (celebrated the restoration)
➢ Annus Mirabilis
➢ The Medal
➢ Mac Flecnoe (satiric novel)
➢ The Conquest of Granada (heroic play)
➢ Marriage A-La-Mode
➢ An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

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12/25/2022

Why This Class?

A. The Book of the Duchess

B. The Name of the Rose

C. The House of Fame

D. The Canterbury Tales.

03 The longest literary period of English

C. Anglo- Saxon Period

D. Middle English Period

04 Find the odd one out:

C. John Millington Synge

05 Find the odd one out:

C. Gabriel García Márquez

06 "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" is a quote from ...

07 The earliest sample of English prose is ….

D. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

08 Which of the following is a French Writer?

09 Chaucer was not a/an…..

10 ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is:

B. A collection of short stories.

01 Previous Years’ Questions

Selected Poets Miscellaneous

23 Questions William Shakespeare

Lines from Plays

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

Preparation The The The

• Henry Howard and Sir Thomas Wyatt

• First English Sonneteer : ????

▪ Thomas Sackville &

The Elizabethan Age

Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Johnson Francis Bacon

•The Faerie Queenee : Allegorical Epic Poem.

“…he that strives to touch the stars

“Sleep after Toil,

“For there is nothing lost,

•Shakespeare’s predecessor, a University Wit.

•Central Character: Faustus

“ Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

• “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”

The University Wits

LyLy Peele Marlowe

Kyd Nashe Greene

•Comedy of Humors , Father of Realistic Comedy

•Father of English Essay. Natural Philosopher.

• “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

• Poet of Love, The Metaphysical Poet

“Death is an ascension to a better library. ”

• To His Coy Mistress

• Epic Poet, Puritan Intellectual and Civil Servant.

• First Poetical Work: On the Morning of the Christ’s Nativity.

• Paradise Lost (1667) • Arcades

Samson Agonistes Lycidas

• “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”

• "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."

• “The mind is its own place,

• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge,

• “Solitude sometimes is best society.”

GwjRv‡e_xq mvwn‡Z¨i hyM (1558 -1603) :

Comedies Histories Tragedies Poet

Tragicomedies / Problem Plays:

➢ English playwright, poet and translator

➢ The most popular tragedian of his days.