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English Literature CLEP I (Anglo-Saxon to the Interregnum)

Fill in the missing titles and author names. Information is sourced from Baron's EZ-101 Study Keys: English Literature and Wikipedia Note: No Shakespeare here, his body of work is too large and there are plenty of other quizzes that cover it in its entirety.
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Last updated: January 12, 2017
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Anglo-Saxon (731)
"Ecclesiastical History of the British Nation"
Historical Nonfiction
Venerable Bede
Anglo-Saxon (c. 750)
Epic Poem
Anglo-Saxon (c. 9th cen.)
"Dream of the Rood"
Christian/Dream Poem
Anglo-Saxon (840-c.900)
Translations into English, including "Ecclesiastical History...", directed writing of "The Ango-Saxon Chronicle"
Old English Translations
King Alfred
Medieval (c. 14th cen.)
"Sir ____ and the ____ _____"
Alliterative Arthurian Poem
usually attributed to the Pearl Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Medieval (c. 1369-1380s)
"Troilus and Criseyde", "The House of Fame", and "The Book of the Duchess"
Poems from the author's French and Italian style periods
Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval (c. 1370-1390)
"Piers Plowman"; full title "The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman"
Alliterative Allegorical Poem
William Langland
Medieval (c. 1386)
"The _______ _____"
Poem made up of 24 stories in verse and prose
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Medieval (c. 1469)
"Le Morte Darthur"
Arthurian prose
Sir ____ _____
Sir Thomas Malory
Medieval (c. 1470)
"______"; characters include: Death, Good Deeds, and Kindred
Allegorical morality play
Tudor (1516)
"_____"; full title translated from Latin: "Of a republic's best state and of the new island ______"
Fiction, political philosophy, humanism
Sir Thomas More
Elizabethan (c. 1577-1585)
"Arcadia" a pastoral romance; and "The Defence of Poesy" a literary criticism
Sir Philip Sidney
Elizabethan (c. 1580s)
"The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and "Dr. Faustus"
Poem, Drama
Christopher Marlowe
Elizabethan (c. 1580-1584)
"______ and ______"
Sequence of Petrarchan Sonnets
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
Elizabethan (c.1580-90s)
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and "Farewell, False Love"
Sir Walter Raleigh
Elizabethan (c. 1590-1596)
"The Faerie Queene"
Epic allegorical poem
Edmund Spenser
Jacobean (c. 1605-1610)
"Volpone, or The Fox" and "The Alchemist"
Drama, "Comedy of Humors"
Ben Jonson
Jacobean (1611)
"The King James Version"
Bible in English vernacular
based heavily on the translations by _____ _____
William Tyndale
Jacobean (c. 1612 - 1625)
"Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Truth", and "Of Riches"
Essays, philosophy
Francis Bacon
Caroline Age (c. 1630s)
"Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?", "The Constant Lover", and "Ballad Upon a Wedding"
Poetry, drama
Cavelier Poet: Sir ___ _______
Sir John Suckling
Caroline Age (c. 1630s)
"An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne"
Cavelier Poet: _____ ____
Thomas Carew
Caroline Age (1637)
"______", written in memory of Milton's friend, Edward King, who drowned at sea
Pastoral Elegy
John Milton
Caroline Age (1642 & 1649)
"To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
Cavelier Poet: _____ ______
Richard Lovelace
Caroline Age (1648)
"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"
Carpe Diem Poem
Cavelier Poet: ______ _______
Robert Herrick
Jacobean (c. 1609-1631)
"Death Be Not Proud", "Go and Catch a Falling Star", "The Canonization", and "The Flea"
Metaphysical Poetry
Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
John Donne
Jacobean (c. 1620-1633)
"The Collar" and "Virtue"
Metaphysical Poetry
Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
George Herbert
Interregnum (c. 1640s)
"To His Coy Mistress"
Metaphysical Poem
Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____
Andrew Marvell
level 55
May 7, 2017
I put Bede for the first one, but it didn't accept it.
level 28
Nov 15, 2017
Changed it, it should accept Bede now! Thanks for letting me know!