GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'


2. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Mr. W.H.
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'


3. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
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 Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland


4. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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5. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Sophocles
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell


6. Sean O'Casey
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The Plough and the Stars
Tamburlaine the Great


7. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

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8. Upton Sinclair

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9. 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.
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
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'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


10. John Fenimore Cooper
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'


11. John Webster
"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
Struldburgs
Castle of Otranto
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil


12. Charlotte Bronte
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Brobdingnag
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'


13. Elizabeth Gaskell
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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


14. Matthew Arnold

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15. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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16. Jonathan Swift

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17. Henry Fielding
Piers Plowman
Hudibras
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
inscape and instress


18. George Meredith
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways


19. Mark Twain

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20. James Joyce

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21. Albert Camus

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22. Alexander Pope
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Under the Volcano
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Brobdingnag


23. Malcom Lowry
Under the Volcano
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The Oresteia
'Silence - cunning - and exile'


24. Eugene O'Neill

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25. Thomas Macaulay

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26. William Wordsworth

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27. Richard Wright
'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'
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider


28. Walt Whitman

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29. Daniel Defoe
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
inscape and instress
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
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


30. Samuel Beckett
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'


31. James Boswell
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The Life of Samuel Johnson


32. John Skelton
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
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
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Ambassadors - Henry James


33. Anton Chekhov
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
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'


34. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'

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35. Henry James
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
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 Faerie Queene
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh


36. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Lilliput
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The Mysteries of Udolpho
'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'


37. Henry David Thoreau

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38. First line of The Iliad

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39. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
'The Jungle'


40. George Bernard Shaw

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41. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'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'
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Lyrical Ballads


42. Opening of Canterbury Tales

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43. Dylan Thomas

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44. Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
The Oresteia
George Eliot'S real name
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


45. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
The Playboy of the Western World
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Le Morte D'Arthur


46. Edith Wharton
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
'Incident'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Ambassadors - Henry James


47. James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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 (


48. Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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49. Ann Radcliffe
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Sun Rising
'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'


50. Dylan Thomas

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