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1. J. M. Synge
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Playboy of the Western World
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

2. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Faerie Queene
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

3. Upton Sinclair
'The Jungle'
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
Once upon a midnight dreary - while I pondered - weak and weary - Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded - nearly napping - suddenly there came a tapping - As of some one gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door.
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo

4. Andrew Marvell
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Houyhnhnms
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider

5. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
'This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.'
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'

6. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider

7. Bram Stoker
The Playboy of the Western World
Poetic Sketches - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Jerusalem - The French Revolution: A Prophecy - America: A Prophecy - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - The Four Zoas
Dracula
Tamburlaine the Great

8. James Joyce
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Houyhnhnms
'The Jungle'

9. Richard Wright
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

10. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Mr. W.H.
Things Fall Apart
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads

11. Malcom Lowry
The Playboy of the Western World
Under the Volcano
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

12. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The Task - Olney Hyms
Lilliput

13. Sylvia Plath
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')

14. George Meredith
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

15. First line of The Iliad
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
'This is the story of an angry man'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

16. Daniel Defoe
George Eliot'S real name
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Dracula
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

17. John Dos Passos
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

18. John Ruskin
Under the Volcano
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Wise Blood - The Violent Bear it Away - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - A Good Man is Hard to Find - Everything that Rises Must Converge - The Complete Stories

19. James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Houyhnhnms
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

20. Ann Radcliffe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

21. George Orwell
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Philadelphia Negro; The Souls of Black Folk; John Brown; Black Reconstruction; Black Folk - Then and Now; The Negro; The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part That Africa Has Played in World History
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'

22. Charlotte Bronte
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Tamburlaine the Great
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre

23. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Beowulf

24. George Eliot
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
George Eliot'S real name
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

25. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)

26. Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Faerie Queene
The Tyger
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley

27. T.S. Eliot
The Tuning of Elinour Rumming - Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Northumberland - Speculum Principis - The Bowge of Court - Phyllyp Sparrow - A Lawde and Prayse Made for our Souereigne Lord of the Kyng - Magnyfycence - Speak - Parrot - Colyn Cloute
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'

28. Nadine Gordimer
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Things Fall Apart
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'

29. Follows trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fiancee'S supposedly wayward son - Chad Newsome. Strether is to bring the young man back to the family business - but he encounters unexpected complications. The t
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (
The Ambassadors - Henry James
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'

30. Oscar Wilde
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest
Lyrical Ballads
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh

31. Rudyard Kipling
Plain Tales from the Hills - 'White-Man'S Burden -' 'The Man Who Would be King.' 'Mandalay -' 'Gunga Din' Something of Myself - Jungle Book - Kim - 'If--'
The Tuning of Elinour Rumming - Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Northumberland - Speculum Principis - The Bowge of Court - Phyllyp Sparrow - A Lawde and Prayse Made for our Souereigne Lord of the Kyng - Magnyfycence - Speak - Parrot - Colyn Cloute
Endymion - The Fall of Hyperion - Lamia - 'Ode to a Nightingale -' The Eve of St. Agnes - La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - 'On First Looking Into Chapman'S Homer -' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'This is the story of an angry man'

32. Ernest Hemingway
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Old Man and the Sea - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Sun Also Rises - A Farwell to Arms - Death in the Afternoon - The Garden of Eden - The Nick Adams Stories

33. Gertrude Stein
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
In a fair season when soft was the sun

34. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Amelia Lanyer
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare

35. Christopher Marlowe
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Tamburlaine the Great

36. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new
Struldburgs

37. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh
George Chapman
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Martinus Scriblerus Club

38. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
Sophocles
Pyramus and Thisbe
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

39. William Makepeace Thackeray
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Pyramus and Thisbe
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest

40. Dylan Thomas
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - The Stylus; Eulalie; To Helen; Ulalume; Eureka; The Cask of Amontillado; A Dream Within a Dream; Tell-Tale Heart; Fall of the House of Usher
The Beautiful and the Damned - This Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night - The Great Gatsby - The Love of the Last Tycoon - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

41. Ben Jonson
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
Every Man in His Humour (1598) - The Mask of Blackness (1605) - Volpone (1606) - Epicoene; or - The Silent Woman (1609) - The Alchemist (1610) - and Bartholomew Fair (1614) - 'Song to Celia'

42. Kate Chopin
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

43. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
The Playboy of the Western World
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

44. Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The Beautiful and the Damned - This Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night - The Great Gatsby - The Love of the Last Tycoon - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

45. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
Struldburgs

46. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'

47. Eric Arthur Blair
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
George Orwell real name
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

48. T.E. Lawrence
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

49. Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

50. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
Piers Plowman
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
Laputa
Once upon a midnight dreary - while I pondered - weak and weary - Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded - nearly napping - suddenly there came a tapping - As of some one gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door.

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