Study Guide for Final Exam

Some dates

1660

1662

1688

1714

1722

1755

1776

1765

1789

1798

1819

1832

1846

1859

1847

1914-1918

1922

1939-1945

Terms

Restoration

Restoration Libertinism

Neoclassical or 18^th-Century Rationalism

Deism

Satire, Formal Verse Satire, Horatian and Juvenalian Satire

Prose Satire

Mock Heroic, Mock Epic, Mock Oration

Satiric Norm

Royal Society

Isaac Newton

“Good Sense”

Whig and Tory

Succession Question

“Three realms” of Britain

Language Question for Neoclassicism

Function of Satire

Slave Trade in England

Oroonoko

Noble Savage

Ode

Romantic Nature Lyric

Byronic Hero

Romantic Overreaching Heroes

Romantic Revolutions

Romantic view of poetry, poet, subjects of poetry

Coleridge’s view of Imagination

“Mind-forged manacles”

Victorian melancholy

Darwin, Marx, Freud

Higher Criticism

Victorian Neomedievalism

Victorian Empire and the Drive to Colonize

Dramatic Monologue

PRB

Instress and Inscape and Sprung Rhythm

Naturalism

Terrible Sonnets

Modernism

Cubism, Imagism

Stream of Consciousness

Objective Correlative

The Irish Question

Postmodernism

Postcolonialism

Some larger questions to ponder

In what ways does the dominant aesthetic sensibilities of the Neoclassical writers differ from that of the Romantics?

What is the major poetic genre of the Neoclassical period and why?

What are some of the dominant genres of the Romantic period and why?

Describe and illustrate the Romantic nature lyric?

What is the Romantics’ conception of nature, imagination, and the discourse of the two?

How is Rape of the Lock a mock epic?

How is “A Modest Proposal” a mock oration?

What are the satiric norms of those two texts?

What is the role of nature for the speaker in Tintern Abbey?

What does Blake mean by the “two contrary states of the human soul”?

In what ways does Oroonoko resemble a romance and what ways a novel?

How does Behn make use of the noble savage myth to convey the injustice of slavery?

What seems to be the dominant allegory or parable or myth of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Why would Blake and Shelley consider Satan the hero of Paradise Lost?

What are the historical contexts of Tennyson’s seemingly a-historical poems?

Illustrate the dramatic monologue with a poem by Browning.

What does Arnold seem to lament in “Dover Beach” and “Scholar Gypsy”?

Describe Goblin Market as representative of the PRB aesthetic project.

Compare and contrast Hardy’s pessimism with Hopkins’ optimism.

Discuss Joyce or Eliot as representative of High Modernist experimental style.

Discuss the connections between Yeats and the Victorians and the Moderns.

What are some of the Yeats’ private symbols?

Discuss postcolonialism as a context for reading Gordimer and Walcott.

In what context do we place Heaney?