GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Richard Wright
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell


2. Alan Ginsberg

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3. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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4. Christopher Newman - good-hearted but gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe - looking for different world than the harsh world of 19th century American business. Mostly concerns his courting of a young widow from aristocratic Parisi
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The American - Henry James
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Maddening Crowd - The Return of the Native - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Jude the Obscure


5. Robert Browning

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6. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'
Struldburgs
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo


7. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Castle of Otranto
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit


8. Emily Dickinson
'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'
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows
Pyramus and Thisbe
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'


9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
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
Lyrical Ballads
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse


10. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
'Incident'
In a fair season when soft was the sun
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


11. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist


12. Marcel Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
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 (
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Sun Rising


13. George Bernard Shaw

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14. Henry James
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'


15. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Laputa
The Mysteries of Udolpho


16. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
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
Pyramus and Thisbe
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.


17. Emily Bronte

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18. Herman Melville

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19. Rudyard Kipling

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20. Flannery O'Connor
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
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--'
Laputa
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


21. J. M. Synge
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Playboy of the Western World
Laputa
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland


22. Jonathan Swift

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23. Henry Fielding
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Confessio Amantis


24. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
Yahoos
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.


25. William Blake
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
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes


26. W.E.B. DuBois
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
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


27. John Dos Passos
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Reason of Church Government (1642) - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643) - Areopagitica (1644) - Poems (1645) - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) - Eikonoklastes (1649) - Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (166
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows


28. Eric Arthur Blair
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
George Orwell real name
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Things Fall Apart


29. Opening of Canterbury Tales

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30. Christopher Marlowe
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
'The Jungle'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II


31. John Lyle

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32. Early English translator of Homer
George Chapman
Things Fall Apart
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'


33. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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34. Samuel Pepys
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris


35. William Wordsworth

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36. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

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37. Edith Wharton
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


38. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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39. Malcom Lowry
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The Plough and the Stars
Lyrical Ballads
Under the Volcano


40. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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41. Nadine Gordimer

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42. Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'


43. John Stuart Mill

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44. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned

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45. Samuel Butler
The Tyger
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Hudibras
Struldburgs


46. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
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.


47. Sense and Sensibility
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'


48. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Mid-seventeenth century diarist


49. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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50. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England

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