Humanism, Elizabethan writers, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Enlightenment prose and satire.
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- Primary focus of Renaissance humanist scholars
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Study of classical texts and human potential- Languages prioritized by Renaissance humanists
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Latin and Greek- Core subjects of humanist education
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Rhetoric, grammar, poetry, and history- Central concept placing humans at center of Renaissance thought
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Anthropocentrism or human-centered philosophy- Key Roman author whose works inspired Renaissance humanists
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Cicero- Literary form revived by Renaissance humanists from antiquity
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The essay- William Shakespeare's literary era
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Elizabethan or Renaissance period- Dramatic form pioneered by Christopher Marlowe
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Dramatic blank verse- Title of Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnet sequence
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Astrophil and Stella- Edmund Spenser's major allegorical epic poem
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The Faerie Queene- Christopher Marlowe's profession in Elizabethan London
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Playwright- Purpose of Sidney's Defence of Poesy
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To defend poetry as a worthy literary form- In Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, what does the protagonist trade
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His soul to the Devil- Publication year of Shakespeare's sonnets
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1609- Meter most employed in Elizabethan sonnets
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Iambic pentameter
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