GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Richard Wright
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
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
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell


2. Lord Byron

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3. Jean Genet

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4. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'


5. Bram Stoker
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Dracula
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes


6. John Dos Passos
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Mark Twain'S real name


7. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Things Fall Apart
The pathetic fallacy
Mark Twain'S real name


8. John Milton
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
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
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'


9. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Dracula
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Martinus Scriblerus Club


10. Charlotte Bronte
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'


11. 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
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion


12. Daniel Defoe
Things Fall Apart
Struldburgs
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs


13. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Laputa
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Things Fall Apart


14. Robert Browning

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15. 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
The American - Henry James
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
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


16. Christopher Marlowe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Oresteia
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
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe


17. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Daisy Miller - Henry James


18. Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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19. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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20. E.M. Forster
The Tyger
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View


21. John Dryden
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
'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.'
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther


22. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
The Oresteia
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'


23. Thomas Carlyle
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)


24. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
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


25. William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair


26. Samuel Beckett
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
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
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable


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

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28. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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29. Robert Burns

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30. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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31. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
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
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')


32. Horace Walpole
Castle of Otranto
George Chapman
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry


33. John Donne
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Sun Rising
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'


34. William Congreve
Confessio Amantis
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
The Way of the World - Love for Love


35. Edmund Spenser
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Yahoos
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 (
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion


36. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
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37. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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38. Henry James
Castle of Otranto
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 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
The Rise of Silas Lapham


39. Ezra Pound

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40. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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41. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
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
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
'Incident'
Beowulf


42. Goethe

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43. George Bernard Shaw

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44. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Amelia Lanyer
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Life of Samuel Johnson
'Silence - cunning - and exile'


45. Matthew Arnold

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46. John Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Brobdingnag
Daisy Miller - Henry James


47. George Orwell
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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'
Under the Volcano


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

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49. Arthur Rimbaud

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50. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
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
Mr. W.H.
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