| A | B |
|---|
| sonnet | 14-line poem in iambic pentameter |
| sestet | last 6 lines of Italian sonnet |
| octet | 1st 8 lines of Italian sonnet |
| King James | ordered translation of Bible into English |
| Psalm 23 | song of God's support |
| parable | story with a moral |
| John Milton | author of Paradise Lost |
| Jonathan Swift | satiric writer |
| Gulliver's Travels | satiric voyager novel |
| A Modest Proposal | satiric essay about eating babies |
| Alexander Pope | wrote heroic couplets |
| "A little learning is . . ." | "a dangerous thing." |
| "True ease in writing . . ." | ""comes from art, not chance," |
| "To err is human, . . ." | "to forgive, divine." |
| mock epic | epic poem about a trivial topic |
| Daniel Defoe | writer of Robinson Crusoe |
| Defoe | fictional plague journal |
| Coleridge & Wordsworth | authors of Lyrical Ballads |
| elegy | long poem about death |
| Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Addison & Steele | dev. periodical essay |
| Samuel Pepys | private coded diary |
| Romantic ideals | nature, imagination, individuals |
| Robert Burns | "To a Mouse" |
| William Blake | artistic Romantic |
| Songs of Experience | innocence -- experience |
| William Wordsworth | "The World is too Much with Us" |
| Samuel Coleridge | "Kubla Khan" |
| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | long poem, Romantic |
| Lyrical Ballads | Romantic poem collection |
| Lord Byron | developed Don Juan, silly lover |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Mary W. Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Percy Shelley | "Ozymandias" |
| John Keats | "When I Have Fears" |
| Keats | "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| ode | long, lyric serious poem |
