This author titled his collected works in a style largely used for celebrated ancient authors.

This was the great age of the ____________. These orations were often over an hour long, and gifted Anglican preachers like John Donne (Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral) gave rhetorical masterpieces, learned and allusive, witty, flowing, and rhythmical.

In Paradise Lost, who said the following: “Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.”

The Catholic church opposed such translations, preferring that the populace encounter Scripture through the priests, who interpreted the Latin _______________.

In Paradise Lost, Eve is most surprised by the serpent’s ability to 

This author had a diverse style but his consistent strength was that of clear, direct expression of ideas.

In Paradise Lost, Who said the following: “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.”

This author was locked up for treason, and Henry, prince of Wales said, “Only my father would keep such a bird in a cage.”

______________________________’s work greatly increased the prestige of English.

Term “romance” eventually came to indicate a story about love and ______________.