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\nThe Mediaevalists <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n1. Describe the nature & influence on English poetry of Percy’s
\nReliques. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n2. Sketch the career of Chatterton.
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\n3. Describe the character of Chatterton’s forgeries and estimate their effects on the value of his poetry.
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\n4. Discuss the conflicting estimates of Chatterton’s poetry. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n5. What is the Ossian controversy? What stage has the controversy reached at present? <\/span><\/p>\n

\n6. Macpherson’s work is often condemned as empty and turgid
\ndeclamation. How far is this view justified? <\/span><\/p>\n

\n7. State the author & nature of the following works: Ella, an
\nInterlude; Bristow Tragedy. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n8. Who were the distinctly mediaevalist writers of the period?
\nWhat was their importance in the history of the period? <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n[Draft-answers to the first three questions<\/i>] <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n1. 1765 Percy’s Reliques
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\n2. Chatterton born 1752. Colston’s Hospital. 1764 first Rowley forgery Elinoure & Juga. 1767 apprenticed to Lambert.
\n1768 \u00ad 9 contributions to London magazines. 1768 attempt to get Dodsley to publish especially Ella. 1769 attempt to
\ninterest Horace Walpole. 1770 life in London & death. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n3. Speght’s Glossary to Chaucer. Kersey’s Dictionary.
\nmetres not 15th century;<\/span> rhymes inconsistent with 15th
\ncen<\/span>tury pronunciation; words either noted down from above &
\noften incorrectly used; or invented by C. himself.   <\/p>\n

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\nPope School <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n1. Trace the history of the classical eighteenth-century style thro’
\nthis period. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n2. Describe the career of Goldsmith, or of a typical man of
\nletters during this period. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n3. Estimate Goldsmith as a poet.
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\n4. Describe briefly the subject & character of the following poems; the Deserted Village, the Traveller, Retaliation.
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\n5. What rank would you assign to Churchill among English satirists? Give your reasons for your answer.
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\n6. Describe briefly the subject & character of the Rosciad, the Ghost, Gotham, the Times, the Prophecy of Famine.
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\n[Incomplete draft-answer to the second question<\/i>]
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\n1728 Goldsmith born in Ireland. Father a clergyman, the original of Dr
\nPrimrose.<\/span> Education. 1744 Dublin Un<\/font>y<\/sup><\/font>. Made attempts
\n. to become clergyman, private tutor; [incomplete<\/i>]<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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