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Who added a Golden Age to the pastoral? 

When Milton describes false teachers as “blind mouths,” he is using what literary device?

Pilgrim’s Progress is which of the following types of literature in addition to allegorized spiritual autobiography?

The worshipers of Belial in Paradise Lost most likely represent who?

Which prose style is associated with journalism, science, and popular literacy?

Which poet writes poetry praising or at least picturing positively “cleanly wantonness” and “harmless folly”?

A play relating a saint’s life is a 

When God at first made man,     Having a glass of blessings standing by,          “Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can;      Let the world’s riches, which dispersed lie,              Contract into a span.”                So strength first made a way;      Then beauty flow’d, then wisdom, honour, pleasure;          When almost all was out, God made a stay,      Perceiving that alone of all his treasure,            Rest in the bottom lay.              “For if I should,” said he,    “Bestow this jewel also on my creature,        He would adore my gifts instead of me,    And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:            So both should losers be.              “Yet let him keep the rest,    But keep them with repining restlessness;        Let him be rich and weary, that at least,    If goodness lead him not, yet weariness            May toss him to my breast.”

I can love both fair and brown; Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays; Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays; Her whom the country form’d, and whom the town; Her who believes, and her who tries; Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries. I can love her, and her, and you, and you; I can love any, so she be not true.

The Germanic word for fate is