What was England's greatest epic? (not oldest)

What genre experienced a great decline in the seventeenth century?

In which poem does the poet resolve to not base his happiness on the love of a woman?

In which poem does the poet say that people should marry early?

In which poem does the poet declare that he would rather face hell than face God without Christ?

In which poem does the speaker declare he has loved a woman for three days?

In which poem does honor drive a man away from his love to the battlefield?

In which poem does the poet write about the freedom of the soul and spirit?

According to "The Anniversary," for how many years have the poet and his wife been married?

Which poem has the theme, "The bell tolls for all of us"?

Whom does the poet address in "Bittersweet"?

Which poem has the theme of man's need for rest?

In which poem does the poet trace his thoughts as he moves from rebellion to submission?

What place does the poet describe in the opening lines of "Peace"?

Whom does the poet address in the opening lines of "Peace"?

According to "Now," what decision must be made before it is too late?

Which poem teaches that the present is more important than past or future?

Which poem is about a husband and wife who lived, died, and were buried together?

Which poem has the theme that time is the subtle thief of youth?

Which poem is about the death of the Waldensians in Italy?

What warning does Milton give in "In Defense of Books"?

According to Paradise Lost, why does Satan propose that they invade earth and corrupt or destroy mankind?

What thought persuaded Eve to share the fruit with Adam, according to Paradise Lost?

Which piece has the theme of justifying the ways of God to man?

Who were the two greatest Puritan writers?

Who was the greatest prose writer of the Puritan Age?

Who wrote Pilgrim's Progress?

Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, George Wither, Edmund Waller, and Robert Herrick were __?__ poets

Who wrote "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" and "To Althea, from Prison"?

What lyric poet was famous for his use of the couplet?

John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne were __?__ poets

Who was first and greatest of the metaphysical poets?

Which metaphysical poet was know for his saintly life and intense devotion to God?

Which metaphysical poet wrote "Wonder" and other idyllic reflections of spiritual childhood?

Who was the most outstanding poet of the seventeenth century and second greatest writer in English literature?

Who wrote Paradise Lost?

Paradise Lost is __?__

Pilgrim's Progress is __?__.

believed Christians should live a pure and holy life

lyricists of a lighthearted nature who emphasized pleasure of this world and wrote love songs to or about women

lyricist interested in the things of the mind, the soul, and eternity

a complete thought expressed in two rhyming lines

intellectual comparison which points out an unusual parallel between dissimilar elements and often involves spiritual qualities to physical objects

"Shall I wasting in despair/Die because a woman's fair?" is from __?__.

"For if she be not for me/What care I for whom she be?" is from __?__.

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,/Old Time is still a-flying." is from __?__.

"I have lov'd/Three whole days together;/ And am like to love three more,/If it prove fair weather." is from __?__.

"I could not love thee (deare) so much, / Lov'd I not honour more." is from __?__.

"Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron bars a cage." is from __?__.

"If I have freedom in my love,/And in my soul am free;/Angels alone that soar above,/Enjoy such liberty." is from __?__.

"For thee, thou needst no such deceit,/For thou thy self art thine own bait." is from __?__.

"This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint/My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race/Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace" is from __?__.

"Let him be rich and weary, that at least,/If goodness lead him not, yet weariness/May toss him to my breast." is from __?__.

"They are all gone into the world of light!/ And I alone sit lingering here;/ Their very memory is fair and bright/And my sad thoughts doth clear." is from __?__

"The world resembled his eternity,/In which my sould did walk;/And everything that I did see/Did with me talk." is from __?__

"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold." is from __?__

"That, to the highth of this great argument,/I may assert Eternal Providence,/And justify the ways of God to men...." is from __?__

"The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven..." is from __?__

"Though all by me is lost, /Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed,/By me the Promised Seed shall all restore." is from __?__