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When did Chaucer write The Canterbury Tales?

When did Shakespeare write Twelfth Night?

Which author wrote the following lines: “My tender age in sorrow did begin: / And still with sicknesses and shame / Thou didst so punish sin, / That I became / Most thin. / With Thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day Thy victory, / For if I imp my wing on Thine, / Affliction shall advance the flight in me.”

Which of the following allusions does the poet make in reference to Grendel?

In Twelfth Night, who says, “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges”?  

What genre is “Dream of the Rood”?

Which poet wrote “The Altar”?

What is the rhyme scheme of the following sonnet published in 1621? Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast,Lest they betray my heart’s most secret thought,Be true unto yourselves, for nothing’s boughtMore dear then doubt, which brings a lover’s fast. Catch you all watching eyes, ere they be past,Or take yours fixed, where your best love hath soughtThe pride of your desires; let them be taughtTheir faults for shame they could no truer last.Then look, and look with joy, for conquest won,Of those that searched your hurt in double kind; So you kept safe, let them themselves look blind,Watch, gaze, and mark till they to madness run.While you, mine eyes enjoy full sight of love,Contented that such happinesses move.

To what nation does the narrator of “A Modest Proposal” attribute his idea?

Consider the setting established in Swift’s opening paragraph.  In what “great town” does one see the “melancholy object” of mothers begging for bread for their children?