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1. Marcel Proust
The American - Henry James
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Oresteia

2. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Things Fall Apart
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Castle of Otranto
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
'The shot heard round the world'
Laputa

4. James Joyce
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Castle of Otranto
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

5. T.E. Lawrence
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

6. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

7. Ben Jonson
Lilliput
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
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 History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')

8. Northanger Abbey
Utopia
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'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.'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

9. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Beowulf

10. Washington Irving
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Beowulf
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')

11. Arthur Rimbaud
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
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 Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

12. W.E.B. DuBois
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Tamburlaine the Great
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
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

13. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
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
George Eliot'S real name
Amelia Lanyer
Struldburgs

14. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
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
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

15. Emily Dickinson
"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
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
George Eliot'S real name

16. Horace Walpole
Pyramus and Thisbe
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 Way of the World - Love for Love
Castle of Otranto

17. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Confessio Amantis
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

18. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
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 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

19. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
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
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
Yahoos

20. Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Life of Samuel Johnson
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Castle of Otranto

21. Thoreau - 'Walden'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
The Plough and the Stars
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

22. Upton Sinclair
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
'The Jungle'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''

23. Anthony Trollope
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

24. 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.
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James

25. John Ruskin
'Incident'
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'
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

26. D.H. Lawrence
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'
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog

27. T.S. Eliot
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Martinus Scriblerus Club
'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. James Joyce
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
The Way of the World - Love for Love
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'

29. Sean O'Casey
The Plough and the Stars
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
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
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. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Le Morte D'Arthur
Laputa

31. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
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'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

32. Vladimir Nabokov
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
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'
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory

33. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Amelia Lanyer
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh

34. Robert Herrick
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'

35. Edmund Spenser
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

36. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
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
Mark Twain'S real name
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 (
Utopia

37. Goethe
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Brobdingnag
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')

38. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana

39. Albert Camus
George Chapman
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

40. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'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.'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

41. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Oresteia
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

42. William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

43. Flannery O'Connor
Le Morte D'Arthur
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 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
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

44. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Yahoos
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mr. W.H.
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

45. Joseph Conrad
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
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
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

46. Eugene O'Neill
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

47. Salman Rushdie
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)

48. John Stuart Mill
inscape and instress
The Faerie Queene
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 (
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

49. Early English translator of Homer
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
George Chapman
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

50. Henry David Thoreau
Tamburlaine the Great
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Yahoos

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