____ is thus an epic celebration of Queen Elizabeth, the Protestant faith, and the English nation, it is also a chivalric romance, full of jousting knights and damsels in distress, dragons, witches, enchanted trees, wicked magicians, giants, dark caves, shining castles.
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. The Faerie Queene
C. Arcadia
D. Astrophil and Stella
____ is the major work of literary criticism in the English Renaissance.
Arcadia
B. Astrophil and Stella
C. The Defense of Poesy
D. Venus and Adonis
As an essayist Bacon stands at almost the opposite pole from his great French predecessor____, who proposed to learn about human-kind by an intensive analysis of his own sensations, emotions, attitudes, and ideas. Bacon’s essays are instead on topics “Civil and Moral.”
A. François Rabelais
B. Michel de Montaigne
C. Nicholas Machiavelli
D. PierredeRonsard