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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Things Fall Apart
'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.'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
2. Albert Camus
3. Honoré de Balzac
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
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
4. Miles and Flora seem to be haunted by ghost of their country estate'S former employees - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Told by their English governess
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Utopia
5. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Lyrical Ballads
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
6. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Sophocles
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
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
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
7. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)
8. John Milton
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
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
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
9. Charles Lamb
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
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Struldburgs
10. William Carlos Williams
11. Sense and Sensibility
Things Fall Apart
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
12. Sylvia Plath
13. James Joyce
14. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Task - Olney Hyms
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
15. John Lyle
16. George Orwell
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
17. John Ruskin
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Pyramus and Thisbe
Piers Plowman
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
18. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Laputa
Pyramus and Thisbe
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
19. Richard Wright
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Yahoos
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
20. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
21. Countee Cullen
22. Andrew Marvell
23. Nadine Gordimer
24. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
25. Bram Stoker
Dracula
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
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
26. Malcom Lowry
Confessio Amantis
Castle of Otranto
Under the Volcano
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
27. E.e. cummings
28. John Donne
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Sun Rising
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
29. John Lydgate
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Sun Rising
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
30. Charles Dickens
31. Opening of Canterbury Tales
32. James Baldwin
The Oresteia
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
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
33. Rainer Maria Rilke
34. Samuel Johnson
"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
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Tamburlaine the Great
35. George Meredith
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Plough and the Stars
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
36. William Butler Yeats
37. Thomas Macaulay
38. Mark Twain
39. Robert Browning
40. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Daisy Miller - Henry James
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
41. Marcel Proust
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Tyger
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Daisy Miller - Henry James
42. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Task - Olney Hyms
43. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
Lyrical Ballads
Brobdingnag
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
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
44. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
45. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hudibras
Houyhnhnms
In a fair season when soft was the sun
46. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Dracula
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
48. James Boswell
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Tyger
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
49. Maya Angelou
50. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Hudibras
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'