Question
A study of this author’s best-known work, titled Surprised by Sin, was one of the first major examples of reader-response theory. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the widely-analysed pair of poems “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso”. William Empson’s book titled for this poet’s “God” analyses his poem Paradise Lost.
ANSWER: John Milton
[10h] Surprised by Sin is by this critic, whose paper “What It’s Like to Read L’Allegro and Il Penseroso” exemplifies their reader-response theory. They popularised the idea of “interpretative communities”.
ANSWER: Stanley Eugene Fish
[10m] A chapter analysing “Light Symbolism in L’Allegro and Il Penseroso” appears in Cleanth Brooks’ book The Well-Wrought Urn, whose title comes from this other English author’s 1633 poem “The Canonisation”.
ANSWER: John Donne
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