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Which poet writes poetry praising or at least picturing positively “cleanly wantonness” and “harmless folly”?

I can love both fair and brown; Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays; Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays; Her whom the country form’d, and whom the town; Her who believes, and her who tries; Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries. I can love her, and her, and you, and you; I can love any, so she be not true.

A play relating a saint’s life is a 

Which hunt is associated with Sir Gawain’s deception of his host?

A good man was ther of religioun, And was a poure Person of a town,But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk That Cristes gospel trewly wolde preche; His parischens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversitee ful pacient; And such he was preved ofte sithes.Ful loth were him to curse for his tithes, But rather wolde he geven out of doute, Unto his poure parisshens aboute, Of his offringe, and eek of his substaunce.

A good man was ther of religioun, And was a poure Person of a town,But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk That Cristes gospel trewly wolde preche; His parischens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversitee ful pacient; And such he was preved ofte sithes.Ful loth were him to curse for his tithes, But rather wolde he geven out of doute, Unto his poure parisshens aboute, Of his offringe, and eek of his substaunce.

He first created for men’s sonsHeaven as a roof, holy creatorThen middle-earth mankind’s Guardian,Eternal Lord, afterwards made—For men earth, Master almighty.

An attitude of denial towards things of this world to fit yourself for the next is what?

When we are told in Beowulf that no one regretted the departure of the defeated Grendel, the poet is employing

Who was the first Israelite King, a strong and good looking man chosen by Samuel (although some historians think of him as a powerful judge)?