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Brit Lit N-Z
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31
Literature
9th Grade
02/08/2010

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Term
-Optiks
-Principia Mathematica
Definition
Sir Isaac Newton
Term
-Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (the basis for many Shakespeare plays)
Definition
Sir Thomas North
Term
-Down and Out in Paris and London
-Burmese Days
-The Road to Wigan Pier
-Homage to Catalonia
-Animal Farm (Mr. Jones, Napoleon)
-1984 (Winston Smith, Julia, Big Brother)
Definition
George Orwell
Term
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Lord Bercilak, Morgan Le Fay)
-The Pearl
Definition
The Pearl Poet
Term
-nicknamed the Wicked Wasp of Twickenham
-An Essay on Man ("Hope springs eternal")
-An Essay on Criticism ("Fools rush in where angels fear to tread; a little learning is a dangerous thing; to err is human, to forgive divine")
-The Rape of the Lock
Definition
Alexander Pope
Term
-The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
-The Tale of Tom Kitten
-Jemima Puddleduck
-The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Floppsy, Moppsy, Cottontail)
Definition
Beatrix Potter
Term
-Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
-proposed the Iron Law of Wages
Definition
David Ricardo
Term
-Clarissa, or Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady (longest novel in the English language)
-Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1st modern English novel)
Definition
Samuel Richardson
Term
-Midnight's Children
-Haroun and the Sea of Stories
-The Satanic Verses (earned him a death sentence from the Ayatollah of Iran)
Definition
Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Term
-Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field ("Oh what a tangled web we weave")
-The Talisman
-Kenilworth
-The Lady of the Lake
-The Heart of Midlothian
-The Bride of Lammermoor
-Waverly
-Ivanhoe
Definition
Sir Walter Scott
Term
-Valperga
-The Last Man
-Frankenstein
Definition
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Term
-The Necessity of Atheism
-Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
-The Cloud
-To a Skylark
-Ode to the West Wind
-Adonais (elegy for his friend John Keats)
-Ozymandias
-Prometheus Unbound
Definition
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Term
-The Rivals (Mrs. Malaprop)
-The School for Scandal
Definition
Richard Sheridan
Term
-the father of economics
-The Wealth of Nations
Definition
Adam Smith
Term
-The Faerie Queene
Definition
Edmund Spenser
Term
-The Tatler
-The Spectator
Definition
Richard Steele
Term
-The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Definition
Laurence Sterne
Term
-A Child's Garden of Verses
-Kidnapped
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-Treasure Island (Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver)
Definition
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Term
-Dracula
Definition
Abraham Bram Stoker
Term
-A Modest Proposal
-Gulliver's Travels
Definition
Jonathan Swift
Term
-Idylls of the King
-In Memoriam (elegy on the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, "tis better to have loved and lost..."
-The Charge of the Light Brigade
Definition
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Term
-Vanity Fair
Definition
William Makepeace Thackeray
Term
-And Death Shall Have No Dominion
-Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Definition
Dylan Thomas
Term
-The Silmarillion
-The Hobbit
-The Lord of the Rings
Definition
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Term
-The Compleat Angler
Definition
Izaak Walton
Term
-A Handful of Dust
-Brideshead Revisited
Definition
Evelyn Waugh
Term
-The Island of Dr. Moreau
-The Invisible Man
-The War of the Worlds
-The Time Machine
Definition
H.G. Wells
Term
-The Witch in the Wood
-The Sword in the Stone
-The Once and Future King
Definition
Terence Hanbury White
Term
-Vindication of the Rights of Women
Definition
Mary Wollstonecraft
Term
-To the Lighthouse
-Mrs. Dalloway
-A Room of One's Own
Definition
Adeline Virginia Woolf
Term
-The Daffodils
-I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
-The World is Too Much With Us
-The Prelude
-Tintern Abbey
-Lyrical Ballads
Definition
William Wordsworth
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