English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1827 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Who Wrote It? Ten Lines
The idea
Practise naming the author from lines the course has quoted. "A little learning is a dang'rous thing": Pope. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold": Yeats. "Glory be to God for dappled things": Hopkins. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven": Milton's Satan. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty": Keats. "The mind-forg'd manacles": Blake. "Ah, love, let us be true / To one another!": Arnold. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield": Tennyson. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?": Shelley. "Had we but World enough, and Time": Marvell. For each, name the clue: the couplet's balance, the gyre, sprung rhythm, epic defiance, the urn, a London of chains, the withdrawing sea, the aged hero, the wind's prophecy, the carpe diem argument.
In practice
Ten lines, ten authors.
Where people slip
A character's line belongs to the author who wrote it, but questions may ask for the speaker. Satan speaks; Milton wrote it.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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