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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | show 🗑
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| Kubla Khan | show 🗑
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 or realy 1798
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 early 1798, comparisons
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 early 1798, contrast
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| show | Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the writing of Kubla Khan
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| "A damsel with a dulcimer/In a vision once I saw" | show 🗑
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| "I would build that dome in air/That sunny come! those caves of ice!" | show 🗑
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| "And close your eyes with holy dread/For he on honeydew hath fed/And drunk the milk of Paradise." | show 🗑
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the damsel is creating music. Men have created the dome. Coleridge wants to create something through words. Her art=music, his art=poems
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| show | Attended Cambridge and became a radical, met Wordsworth in 1797, knowon as the "Sage of Highgate" met Keats in 1819, addicted to Opium and Laudanum, lonely poet
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| show | 1797
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| When did Coleridge meet Keats? | show 🗑
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| show | 1816
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| Info about Kubla Khan | show 🗑
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| George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron | show 🗑
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| When did George Gordon Byron become Lord Byron | show 🗑
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| What poem made Byron famous and when? | show 🗑
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| George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron's bibliography | show 🗑
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| When was Childe Harold published? | show 🗑
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| show | Don Juan
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| show | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| Dejection: An Ode | show 🗑
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| Who was the "Sage of Highgate"? | show 🗑
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| Rime of the Ancient Mariner | show 🗑
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| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | show 🗑
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| Don Juan | show 🗑
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| English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | show 🗑
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| Hebrew Melodies | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, a tradegy
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, the revival of an old verse form the ottava rima in a short satiric work
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| Don Juan | show 🗑
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| She Walks in Beauty | show 🗑
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| "She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies/An all that's best of dark and bright/Meet in her aspect and her eyes" | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, poem addressed to himself, aware of the passing of his youth
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| "Though the night was made for loving/And the day returns too soon" | show 🗑
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| "For the sword outwears its sheath/And the soul wears out the berast/And the heart must pause to breathe/And love itself have rest" | show 🗑
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| "So we'll go no more a-roving/So late into the night/Though the heart be still as loving/And the moon be still as bright" | show 🗑
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| "One shade the more, one ray the less/Had half impaired the nameless grace/Which waves in every raven tress" | show 🗑
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| "And on that cheek, and o'er that brow/So soft, so calm, yet eloquent/The smiles that win, the tints that glow/But tell of days in goodness spent" | show 🗑
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| London | show 🗑
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| show | William Blake, London, keeps lines connected, ties lines together using similar words
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| show | Ban--legal prohibition, should be happy if spelt ban, which is a wedding bann--read allowed in church
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| "How the chimney sweeper's cry/Every blackning church appalls/And the hapless soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down palace walls" | show 🗑
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| "But most through midnight streets I hear/How the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the newborn infant's tear/And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" | show 🗑
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| show | William Wordsworth, 1802, adresses John Milton calling for the need for a new and powerful poetic "voice" in Wordsworth's own time to correct the weaknesses of English society
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| show | William Wordsworth, London, 1802, 1802, England is a mess
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| show | William Wordsworth, London, 1802, 1802
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| "Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart/Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea/Pure as the nake heavens, majestic, free/So didst thou travel on life's common way/In cheerful godlinessl and yet thy heart/The lowliest duties on herself did lay" | show 🗑
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| Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | show 🗑
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| show | William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, contrast to London, 1802, London is peaceful, quiet, beautiful
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| show | William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, 1807
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| "All bright ant glittering in the smokeless air/Never did sun more beautifully steep/In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill/Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, bouncy, anapestic rhythms, assyrians lost battle at egypt, bible tells the same story Kings 2, 18-19, plague killed everyone, this tells the story of it
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Assyrians lost battle at Egypt, plague mice ate their weapons
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
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| show | 1792-1822
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"
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| The Revolt of Islam | show 🗑
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| Julian and Maddalo | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, highly wrought elegy for Keats
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1812, not published until after his death
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| Epipsychidion | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, major lyric achievement, provoked by the sight of an oncoming storm near Florence, temporary note of exaltation after a period of greif over the death of his three-year-old son, William
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| To a Skylark | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, about the Peterloo Massacre, the king in line 1 is George III, the insane king, historical references
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| Ozymandias | show 🗑
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| When did Percy Shelley arrive at Oxford? | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, 1819
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, Ode to the West Wind
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| "Be though my lips to unawakened Earth/The trumpet of a prephecy! O Wind/If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" | show 🗑
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!/Bird thou never wert--/That from Heaven, or near it/Pourest thy full heart/In profuse strains of unpremediated art" | show 🗑
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| "What thou art we know now/What is most like thee?" | show 🗑
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| "Like a poet hidden/In the light of thought/Singing hymns unbidden/Till the world is wrought/To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| "What objects are the fountains/Of thy happy strain?" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| "We look before and after/And pine for what is now/Our sincerest laughter/With some pain is fraught/Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, England in 1829, George III became insane late in life, historical references to Peterloo massacre, army kills people
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| "A people starved and stabbed in th'untilled field/An army, whome libeticide and prey/Makes as a two-edged sword to all who weild" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, England in 1819, something positive may come
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817, Ozymandias, the speaker never would have known about Ozymandias if it weren't for the traveler
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817, Ozymandias, Ozymandias thought his glory would last forever but it didn't, sculptor captured this
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817 Ozymandias, The sculptor mocked Ozymandias, hand of the sculptor, heart of Ozymandias, his vanity, he was a tyrant, terrible leader, vain, arrogant, his power, display of wealth, dies
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| "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!/Nothing beside remains. Round the decay.Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away." | show 🗑
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| show | 1817
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| show | 1795-1821
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| Endymion | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, unfinished, long poem
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| The Eve of St. Agnes | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1816, not historically accurate, similes (astronomy and cortez) sonnet in praise of Chapman's translation of Homer's Iliad, one of his best sonnets, high quality, limited because hes looking at one translation, importance of discovery, empathy
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| show | John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, 1816, concrete imagery, combines two senses, sensous, Petrarchan sonnet, about discovery, considered his first great poem
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| show | John Keats, On Fist Loking into Chapman's Homer, 1816, comparison--similes that have to do wish discovery, traveling, exploration, his own literary exploration, then disvoery in reading, it made him feel like he discovered something, not historically corr
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| More About On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | show 🗑
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| When did Keats write On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1819, poignant, overemphasized failure of Keats's ability to establish a full and steady relationship with Fanny beacuse of his health, sonnet
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| When was Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art written? | show 🗑
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| "And watching, with eternal lids apart/Like nature;s patient, sleepless eremite/The moving waters at their priestlike task/Of pure ablution round earth's human shores" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art, 1819
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| show | John Keats, 1818, show his aspirations to love as well as to fame
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| show | John Keats, 1818, When I Have Fears, fear of dying before accomplishing anything
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| "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour/That I shall never look upon thee more/Never have relish in the faery power/Of unreflecting love!--then on the shore/Of the wide world I stand alone, and think/Till love and fame to nothingness do sink" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1819, this poem is of a human being who seized upon the experience of a moment and, with all the art at his command, tried to turn his thoughts and feelings into words and patterns that might outlast the moment
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| "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk/Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains/One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk" | show 🗑
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| show | Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819
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| "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget/What thou among the leaves hast never known/The weariness, the fever, and the fret/Here, where men sit and hear each other groan" | show 🗑
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| "Away! away! for I will fly to thee/Not charioted Bacchus and his pards/But on the viewless wings of Poesy" | show 🗑
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| "Clustered around by all her starry Fays/But here there is no light." | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats, 1819, Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| "Fornlorn! the very word is like a bell/To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats, 1819, sugests a new serene manner in Keat's poetry, air of detachment, looks backward to the techniques of personification and looks forward to a modern attitude toward nature as something independent of human beings' longings and fantasies
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| show | Highly structured, sections, time, apostrophe to autumn, time keeps structure tight, three periods of autumn, early ripening, middle-harvesting, late-sounds
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| show | John Keats, To Autumn, early ripening period of autumn, stresses ripening period of fruit
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| show | John Keats, 1819, To Autumn, middle harvesting period of autumn, gleaner, harvesting period, gathering period
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| show | John Keats 1819 To Autumn, late autumn period, stressing sounds, sounds images contrast songs of spring
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| show | John Keats, 1819, intricate rhyme scheme, narrative poem, opposites, based on an ancient legend, a Christian martyr Saint Agnes, who refused the attentions of a man she did not love, in this poem the hopeful Madeline is rewarded
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| When is St. Agnes' day? | show 🗑
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| What form is The Eve of St. Agnes in? | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 The Eve of St. Agnes, a gift God offers to all
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| "Meantime, across the mors/Had come young Porphyro, with heart on fire/For Madeline" | show 🗑
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| "Mercy, Porphyro! hie thee from this place/They are all here tonight, the whole bloodthirsty race!" | show 🗑
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| "He cursed thee and thine, both house and land/Then there's that old Lord Maurice, not a white/More lame for hsi gray hairs--Alas me! flit!/Flit like a ghost away."--"Ah, Gossip dear/We're safe enoughl here in this armchair sit" | show 🗑
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| "Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd/With jellies soother than the creamy curd/And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon/Manna and dates, in argosy transferred/From Fez and spiced dainties, every one/From silken Samarkand to cedared Lebanon" | show 🗑
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| "There was a painful change, that nigh expelled/The blisses of her dream so pure and deep/At which fair Madeline began to weep/And moan forth witless words with many a sigh" | show 🗑
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| "No dream, alas! alas! and woe is mine!/Porphyro will leave me here to fade and pine/Cruel! what traitor could thee hither bring?" | show 🗑
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| "My Madeline! sweet dreamer! lovely bride!" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 On the Eve of St Agnes spiritual overtones contrasted with erotic, sensual undertones
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| "The knowledge of contrast feeling of light and shade" | show 🗑
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| "Died palsy-twitched, with meager face deform/The Beadsman, after thousand aves told/For aye unsough for slept among his ashes cold." | show 🗑
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| The Eve of St Agnes Author | show 🗑
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| show | 1771-1855
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| Dorothy Wordsworth's biography | show 🗑
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| show | 1802
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| The Journals | show 🗑
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| show | 1797-1851
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| Political Justice | show 🗑
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| When did Percy Shelley meet Mary Wollstonecraft? | show 🗑
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| show | July 14 1813, Mary's half-sister Jane (later to be called Claire Clairmont)
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| show | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1817, her first publication, she used her journal in this publication
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| Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus | show 🗑
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| Valperga | show 🗑
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| show | December 1816
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| show | From a liberal family--her mother was an advocate for women's rights and her father was a leading political philosopher, married to Percy Shelley, met up with Lord Byron and told ghost stories, leading to Frankenstein, had four children, all of which died
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, his early political activism and pronouncement that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
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| The Revolt of Islam | show 🗑
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley's bibliography | show 🗑
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| show | 1795-1821
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| Keats's first book of poetry | show 🗑
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| How old was Keats when he died? | show 🗑
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| show | Small physical stature, died of tuberculosis in 1821, fell in love with Fanny but he couldn't marry her, powerful elegy, poems rich in sensuous detail, obsession with his calling as a poet and his determination to become one
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| On The Vanity of Earthly Greatness | show 🗑
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| "The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls/Of mastodons, are billiard balls." | show 🗑
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| "The sword of Charlemagne the Just/Is ferric oxide, known as rust" | show 🗑
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| show | Arthur Guitterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
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| show | Arthur Guitterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
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| show | Ogden Nash 1902
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| "One thing that literature would be greatly the better for/Would be a mroe restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor" | show 🗑
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