Match the entries below with a poet indicated on the Reading List for the English Poetry Course (AN-211)
[For example, The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer]
(Note: At the examination, you will be asked to match ten randomly selected entries from the list below and then to identify a quote from a poem indicated on the Reading List (name of the author, title.) Finally, you will be asked to discuss a poet / general topic of poetry.)
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
- "Mower" poems
- (alleged) lover of Anne Boleyn before her marriage to Henry VIII
- 154 sonnets
- 36 plays
- A Defence of Poetry
- A Hymn to God the Father
- A Red, Red Rose
- A Vision
- Abbey Theatre
- addicted to laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol)
- Adonais
- ambassadorial missions frequently took him to France--once, in 1377
- America
- Amoretti
- An Anatomy of the World
- An Essay on Criticism
- An Essay on Man
- Anne Hathaway
- Anne More
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Areopagitica
- Arthur Hallam
- As a student at the RoyalAcademyAntiqueSchool (1845-47), he met William Holman Hunt and John Millais
- Ash Wednesday
- Assisitant Latin Secretary to Cromwell's government
- At the Hawk's Well
- Atalanta in Calydon
- Auguries of Innocence
- Bagpipe Music
- became a British subject in 1927
- became completely blind
- became secretary to the Council of State under Oliver Cromwell
- Bells and Pomegranates
- beloved sister, Dorothy
- Bermudas
- Biographia Literaria
- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
- born in St. Louis, Missouri
- born to a prominent Roman Catholic family but converted to Anglicanism
- Break, break, break
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Christabel
- Christopher Marlowe
- City Without Walls
- combined the vocations of engraver, painter, and poet
- Composed upon WestminsterBridge
- crippled from his earliest years by a deformity of the spine (tubercolosis)
- Crossing the Bar
- Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova
- dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
- death of his friend Walpole's cat
- Dejection: An Ode
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
- died of tuberculosis in Rome
- Don Juan
- Dramatis Personae
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Endymion
- Epipsychidion
- Epistle to Miss Blount
- Epithalamion
- Europe
- Four Quartets
- friendship with Coleridge
- Frost at Midnight
- Futility
- Globe Theatre
- God's Grandeur
- Green Grow the Rushes
- Hamlet and His Problems
- Hap
- Harriet Westbrook
- he typified the romantic revolt and the cult of personal freedom
- he was apprenticed to a surgeon
- his engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout was the frontispiece for the First Folio
- his exile lasted until his death
- his father, John, was a glover and leather merchant
- his mother, Mary, was the daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote
- his tomb in Westminster Abbey was the first in what is now known as Poets' Corner
- Holy Willy's Prayer
- Homage to Clio
- Il Penseroso
- illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
- illustrations for The Book of Job
- in 1386 he was elected representative to Parliament from Kent
- In Memoriam
- introduced (with Henry Howard, earl of Surrey) the sonnet form into English verse
- Irish myth and landscapes
- John Anderson, My Jo
- John Donne and Ben Jonson both seem to have affected his poetry
- joined the earl of Essex's military expedition to Spain and the Azores
- joined the Society of Jesus
- Kubla Khan
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Lake District
- L'Allegro
- Leda and the Swan
- Legend of Good Women
- Like his older contemporary John Milton, he was educated at CambridgeUniversity
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- long expedition through the Middle East
- Los
- Lycidas
- Lyrical Ballads
- Manfred
- married Erica Mann, daughter of Thomas Mann
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Men and Women
- military service in France in 1359
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Musée des Beaux Arts
- My Last Duchess
- Neutral Tones
- Nobel Prize for literature in 1948
- Nobel Prize for poetry (1923)
- Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode to the West Wind
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- Of the Progress of the Soul
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- On the Elgin Marbles
- one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Oxford Movement
- Ozymandias
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Pauline
- Pied Beauty
- Poems on Various Subjects
- Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
- poet laureate in 1843
- poet, painter, and designer
- Poetical Sketches
- Portrait of a Lady
- Prayer Befor Birth
- President of the Irish National Theatre Society
- proficient in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
- Prometheus Unbound
- prose romance Arcadia
- Puritan member of Parliament who published political verse satires
- Queen Mab
- radio programs for the BBC
- Regius Professor of Modern History in Cambridge
- Renowned in his day as the English Renaissance courtier par excellence
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Sara Hutchinson
- Scriblerus Club
- secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton
- served as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War
- served as member of Parliament for Hull
- She Walks in Beauty
- Siegfried Sassoon collected his Poems
- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
- Songs Before Sunrise
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
- sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella
- sprung rhythm
- Stephen Gosson
- Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress
- subjects taken from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
- Sudden Light
- Sweeney among the Nightingales
- The Art of Sinking in Poetry
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
- The Blessed Damozel
- The Book of the Duchess
- The Cenci
- The Cocktail Party
- The Darkling Thrush
- The Defence of Poesie (=Apologie for Poertie)
- The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- The Dunciad
- The Ecstasy
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- The Excursion
- The Faerie Queene
- The Fall of Hyperion
- The Family Reunion
- the first English essay of literary criticism
- The Flea
- The Four Zoas
- The Garden
- The Garden of Proserpine
- The Good-Morrow
- The House of Fame
- The House of Life
- The Indian Serenade
- The Lady of Shallott
- The Lamb
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- The Lucy poems
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- The Mask of Anarchy
- the most outstanding of the Metaphysical Poets
- The Necessity of Atheism
- The New Dunciad
- The Parliament of Fowls
- The Progress of Poesy
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Rape of the Lock
- The Rehearsal Transprosed
- The Reverie of Poor Susan
- The Revolt of Islam
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Ring and the Book
- The Sacred Wood
- The Second Coming
- The Sermons
- The Shepheardes Calendar
- The Shield of Achilles
- The Sick Rose
- The Solitary Reaper
- The Strings Are False
- The Sunlight on the Garden
- The Tower
- The Tyger
- The WasteLand
- The Windhover
- The Winding Stair
- The World Is Too Much with Us
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Thomas Kyd
- To a Skylark
- To His Coy Mistress
- Tradition and the Individual Talent
- translated Homer in heroic couplets
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Twins, named Hamnet and Judith
- Under the Greenwood Tree
- university professor in Dublin
- Urizen
- Venus and Adonis
- Veue of the PresentState of Ireland
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion
- was expelled from OxfordUniversity
- was killed in World War I
- was twice imprisoned on suspicion of treason
- We Are Seven
- went to school in London before entering JesusCollege, Cambridge
- When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
- When I Have Fears
- When We Two Parted
- When You Are Old
- with Southey, he planned to found a community in America ("Pantisocracy")
- wounded in a skirmish with the Spaniards at Zutphen and died three weeks later