LITERATURE
What ancient literatures in the sixteenth century profoundly influenced English? 1081, 209, 1082, 1083. Who was "the welle of Englishe undefyled"? 373. What immortal book did he write? 1088. Did he owe anything to Petrarch and Boccaccio? 373, 1083. What scientific and philosophical Englishman lived in the thirteenth
century? 154.
What English authors flourished in the fifteenth century? 354, 1152. What form of poetry grew up in Scotland specially? 161, 1401, 1451. When did the Renascence appear in England? 1088. What did the men of the time call it? 706, 1088. Who are a few of the famous literary men between 1509 and 1563?
1088, 1089. Who of them is the poet's poet? What famous allegory is his work?
1796, 1088.
What great Englishman wrote about an ideal state? 1261. When was the Elizabethan age? 607. What made England then a nest of singing-birds? 1088. What prince of poets was born in 1564? 1733. Name a few of his works. 129, 831, 1004, 1130, 1206, 1222, 1399, 1630,
1886, 2097.
What dramatist might have rivaled him? 1174. What friend of his was "rare Ben"? 978. Who was "the greatest, wisest, meanest of mankind"? 154. What interesting and important books did he write? 1089. To what quaint compiler of travels are we indebted? 825. What chivalrous courtier of the time wrote a history of the world?
1583. Had any English novel yet been written? What English romances
existed? 1089, 1363, 1628.
How does Milton rank with Shakspere as a poet? 1089. What were his early poems? 1228.
What was the character of the second period of his writings? 1229. What was Milton's masterpiece, and during what period of his life
was it written? 1089. Who was the Saxon Milton? 302. During this period who wrote sermons that were famous in literature?
1876.
Who was the inspired tinker and immortal dreamer? 290. Who were some other poets of Milton's time? 1089. Who was the greatest writer of the restoration? 555. What can you tell about Absalom and Achitophelf 1089. During what period did modern science arise? 1706. Who were the principal writers along this line? 1089. What were some of their writings? 1089. Who was the chief poet of th'e Queen Anne period, and what were
his productions? 1527.
How does the Queen Anne period of literature rank? 1090. What famous essayists wrote during this period? 12, 626, 1820. Who was the most forcible prose-writer of this age? 1856. What were some of his leading writings? 1090. Who wrote The Seasons? 1906.
During this time who wrote a famous elegy and what was it? 797. Who wrote odes at this time? 425. Who wrote Robinson Crusoef 515.
What was the first modern novel and who wrote it? 1363. What was Tom Jones f 1090.
For what are Hume and Robertson noted? 897, 1090. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? 764. What were the great names in English philosophy and kindred
topics during the Queen Anne period? 1090. Who wrote The Wealth of Nations? 1769. Who were the two principal essayists of this period? 1090. Of whom was it said that he adorned everything he touched? 778.
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