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1. Honoré de Balzac
The Task - Olney Hyms
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot

2. Edgar Allan Poe
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
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
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
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

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

4. John Bunyan - 1684

5. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'

6. James Joyce

7. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Amelia Lanyer

8. William Blake
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'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Piers Plowman
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

9. First line of The Iliad

10. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'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'

11. John Donne

12. William Congreve
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
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'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Way of the World - Love for Love

13. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
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
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Beowulf

14. George Eliot
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner

15. Edmund Spenser
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
'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'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

16. Alan Ginsberg

17. William Carlos Williams

18. Jean Genet

19. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Utopia
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')

20. Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'

21. 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 Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Aspern Papers - Henry James

22. George Orwell
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
The Oresteia
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe

23. William Blake
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
The Tyger
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
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

24. Herman Melville

25. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Lilliput
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
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

26. John Fenimore Cooper
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

27. John Dos Passos
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Struldburgs
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

28. Arthur Rimbaud

29. Kate Chopin

30. Nadine Gordimer

31. Edmund Spenser - 1590
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
The Faerie Queene
'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

32. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

33. Oscar Wilde

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

35. Langston Hughes

36. Charles Lamb
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

37. John Dryden
Dracula
Struldburgs
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
In a fair season when soft was the sun

38. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

39. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog

40. Algernon Charles Swinburne

41. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Utopia
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'This is the story of an angry man'

42. W.E.B. DuBois
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 Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
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

43. Mark Twain

44. Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner

45. Sean O'Casey
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
The Plough and the Stars
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'

46. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

47. Goethe

48. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
'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
Mr. W.H.

49. Walt Whitman

50. Mansfield Park
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
'To a green thought in a green shade'
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'