Contexts of Poetry - AP English Literature and Composition
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
What collection is this poem taken from?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
What collection is this poem taken from?
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William Blake wrote both Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, but “The Tyger” is from the former collection. (The other titles are invented.)
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
William Blake wrote both Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, but “The Tyger” is from the former collection. (The other titles are invented.)
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
When was this poem first published?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
When was this poem first published?
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The poem was first published in 1794.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
The poem was first published in 1794.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Which of the following is not another work by this poet?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Which of the following is not another work by this poet?
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), The Book of Los (1795), Europe a Prophecy (1794), An Island in the Moon (1785) are all by William Blake. Lamia is an 1820 narrative poem by John Keats.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), The Book of Los (1795), Europe a Prophecy (1794), An Island in the Moon (1785) are all by William Blake. Lamia is an 1820 narrative poem by John Keats.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
Who is the author of this poem?
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
Who is the author of this poem?
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These are the opening lines of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830), Caroline Clive wrote Year after year: a tale (1858), Lewis Carroll wrote Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898), and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge wrote Non Sequitur (1900).
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
These are the opening lines of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830), Caroline Clive wrote Year after year: a tale (1858), Lewis Carroll wrote Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898), and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge wrote Non Sequitur (1900).
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
With which era is this poet associated?
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
With which era is this poet associated?
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Robert Browning, who lived from 1812 to 1889, was a leading Victorian poet.
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
Robert Browning, who lived from 1812 to 1889, was a leading Victorian poet.
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
When was this poem published?
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
When was this poem published?
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The poem first appeared in 1842 in Browning’s collection Dramatic Lyrics. Remembering Browning’s birth date (1812) may have helped rule out the earlier decades.
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
The poem first appeared in 1842 in Browning’s collection Dramatic Lyrics. Remembering Browning’s birth date (1812) may have helped rule out the earlier decades.
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
Who is the author of this poem?
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
Who is the author of this poem?
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This is "Goblin Market,” a poem by the English author Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). It is a fantastical narrative poem about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and the cries they hear from magical goblin merchants. The poem is often read as an elaborate metaphor for loss of sexual innocence, although Rossetti stated that the poem was really intended for children.
William Wordsworth wrote The Excursion (1814), Matthew Arnold wrote Culture and Anarchy (1869), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), and Joanna Baillie wrote Plays on the Passions (1798).
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
This is "Goblin Market,” a poem by the English author Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). It is a fantastical narrative poem about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and the cries they hear from magical goblin merchants. The poem is often read as an elaborate metaphor for loss of sexual innocence, although Rossetti stated that the poem was really intended for children.
William Wordsworth wrote The Excursion (1814), Matthew Arnold wrote Culture and Anarchy (1869), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), and Joanna Baillie wrote Plays on the Passions (1798).
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
The author of this passage wrote the words to which Christmas carol?
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
The author of this passage wrote the words to which Christmas carol?
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Following publication of Rossetti’s 1872 poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Scribner’s Monthly, Gustav Holst adapted the work to music.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
Following publication of Rossetti’s 1872 poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Scribner’s Monthly, Gustav Holst adapted the work to music.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
When was this poem first published?
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
When was this poem first published?
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The poem was first published in 1862, although it was written several years earlier in the late 1850s.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
The poem was first published in 1862, although it was written several years earlier in the late 1850s.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
Which famous artist was the illustrator of this poem?
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
Which famous artist was the illustrator of this poem?
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti’s brother, illustrated the text. He was a poet himself and a leading founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an artistic movement that rejected Mannerism and embraced lush, sensual details and rich colors in painting.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti’s brother, illustrated the text. He was a poet himself and a leading founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an artistic movement that rejected Mannerism and embraced lush, sensual details and rich colors in painting.
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Who is the author of this poem?
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Who is the author of this poem?
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This is William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan (1816), Matthew Arnold wrote The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849), William Blake wrote The Four Zoas (1797), and Christina Rossetti wrote Speaking Likenesses (1874).
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
This is William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan (1816), Matthew Arnold wrote The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849), William Blake wrote The Four Zoas (1797), and Christina Rossetti wrote Speaking Likenesses (1874).
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
When was this poem published?
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
When was this poem published?
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As noted in the full title of the poem, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” was published in 1798. Wordsworth lived from 1770 to 1850.
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
As noted in the full title of the poem, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” was published in 1798. Wordsworth lived from 1770 to 1850.
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Which of the following is not another work by the author of this poem?
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Which of the following is not another work by the author of this poem?
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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1802), “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” (1798), “The Solitary Reaper” (1807), and “The Tables Turned” (1798) are all among Wordsworth’s best known poems. “Ulysses” is an 1844 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1802), “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” (1798), “The Solitary Reaper” (1807), and “The Tables Turned” (1798) are all among Wordsworth’s best known poems. “Ulysses” is an 1844 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).
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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
The author of this passage was married to which famous Victorian writer?
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance…
The author of this passage was married to which famous Victorian writer?
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Elizabeth Barrett, known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning after her marriage, married Robert Browning in 1846. As a result of the elopement (she kept the courtship secret), she was disinherited by her family.
George Eliot was a novelist, and the author of Middlemarch (1874). Lady Caroline Lamb wrote Ada Reis (1823), Lady Charlotte Elliot wrote Hours of Sorrow Cheered and Comforted (1836), and Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862).
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
Elizabeth Barrett, known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning after her marriage, married Robert Browning in 1846. As a result of the elopement (she kept the courtship secret), she was disinherited by her family.
George Eliot was a novelist, and the author of Middlemarch (1874). Lady Caroline Lamb wrote Ada Reis (1823), Lady Charlotte Elliot wrote Hours of Sorrow Cheered and Comforted (1836), and Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862).
Passage adapted from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," from Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
Who is the author of this poem?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
Who is the author of this poem?
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This is “How Do I Love Thee,” one of the best known poems by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).
Robert Browning wrote Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833), Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The King with Two Faces (1897), Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862), and Caroline Clive wrote Paul Ferroll: a Tale (1855).
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
This is “How Do I Love Thee,” one of the best known poems by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).
Robert Browning wrote Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833), Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The King with Two Faces (1897), Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862), and Caroline Clive wrote Paul Ferroll: a Tale (1855).
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
What is the title of the collection of famous sonnets written by this poet to her husband?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
What is the title of the collection of famous sonnets written by this poet to her husband?
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Sonnets from the Portuguese is the title of the collection, which includes “How Do I Love Thee.” All the others are titles of individual sonnets by different authors.
"The New Colossus" (1883) is by Emma Lazarus, "Bread and Music" (1917) is by Conrad Aiken, "Sweet Rose of Virtue" (1633) is by George Herbert, and "Leda and the Swan" (1924) is by William Butler Yeats.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
Sonnets from the Portuguese is the title of the collection, which includes “How Do I Love Thee.” All the others are titles of individual sonnets by different authors.
"The New Colossus" (1883) is by Emma Lazarus, "Bread and Music" (1917) is by Conrad Aiken, "Sweet Rose of Virtue" (1633) is by George Herbert, and "Leda and the Swan" (1924) is by William Butler Yeats.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
To what country did this poet move to aid her poor health?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
To what country did this poet move to aid her poor health?
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Due to problems with her lungs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband moved to Italy in 1846. She would live there until her death in Florence in 1861.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
Due to problems with her lungs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband moved to Italy in 1846. She would live there until her death in Florence in 1861.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
Which of the following is the title of another work by this poet?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
Which of the following is the title of another work by this poet?
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Aurora Leigh is an Elizabeth Barrett Browning novel written in blank verse. All the other titles are by the Victorian poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus was published in 1898, The Fiery Dawn was published in 1901, The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor was published in 1906, and Holman Hunt was published in 1908.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
Aurora Leigh is an Elizabeth Barrett Browning novel written in blank verse. All the other titles are by the Victorian poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus was published in 1898, The Fiery Dawn was published in 1901, The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor was published in 1906, and Holman Hunt was published in 1908.
Passage adapted from "How Do I Love Thee," from Sonnets from the Portugese (1850).
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… Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Who is the author of this poem?
… Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Who is the author of this poem?
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These are the famous final lines of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses.”
Thomas Hardy wrote Satires of Circumstance (1914), Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote The Wreck of the Deutschland (1918), Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote Ballads and Sonnets (1881), and Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Prometheus Unbound (1820).
Passage adapted from "Ulysses" from Poems (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson_._
These are the famous final lines of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses.”
Thomas Hardy wrote Satires of Circumstance (1914), Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote The Wreck of the Deutschland (1918), Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote Ballads and Sonnets (1881), and Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Prometheus Unbound (1820).
Passage adapted from "Ulysses" from Poems (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson_._
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… Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
When was this poem written?
… Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
When was this poem written?
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Although the poem was published in 1842, it was written almost a decade earlier, in 1833.
Passage adapted from "Ulysses" from Poems (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson_._
Although the poem was published in 1842, it was written almost a decade earlier, in 1833.
Passage adapted from "Ulysses" from Poems (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson_._
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