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1. Herman Melville
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Hudibras
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

2. Sean O'Casey
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
The Plough and the Stars
'To a green thought in a green shade'

3. Charlotte Bronte
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

4. George Bernard Shaw
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
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
Utopia
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

5. Ezra Pound
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Brobdingnag

6. Albert Camus
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Playboy of the Western World
Beowulf

7. Jonathan Swift
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
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
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

8. Mansfield Park
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Beowulf
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World

9. Thomas Carlyle
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
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'

10. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

11. E.M. Forster
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

12. Charles Dickens
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
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

13. Richard Wright
The Faerie Queene
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Houyhnhnms
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia

14. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Oresteia
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

15. Kate Chopin
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
'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'

16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard

17. T.S. Eliot
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
'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 Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
'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.'

18. 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
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh

19. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
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
Mr. W.H.
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
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

20. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Things Fall Apart

21. George Meredith
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways

22. Honor de Balzac
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Under the Volcano
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

23. Charles Lamb
The Sun Rising
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

24. E.e. cummings
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--'
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'The Balcony'

25. Christopher Marlowe
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Tamburlaine the Great

26. Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Incident'
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Beowulf

27. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Sophocles
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

28. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
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'
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
George Eliot'S real name

29. Joseph Conrad
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Laputa
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island

30. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'Incident'

31. William Blake
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
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Life of 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

32. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Lilliput
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
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget

33. John Donne
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Laputa
The Sun Rising
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

34. Samuel Beckett
The Oresteia
Hudibras
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell

35. Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
inscape and instress
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church

36. First line of The Iliad
Mark Twain'S real name
First lines: 'April is the cruelest month - breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land - mixing/Memory and desire - stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.' Last lines: 'Datta - Dayahvam - Damyataya./Shantih shantih shantih'
George Chapman
'This is the story of an angry man'

37. Sir Walter Raleigh
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry

38. Jean Genet
'The Balcony'
Le Morte D'Arthur
Amelia Lanyer
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

39. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Laputa
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 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
Once upon a midnight dreary - while I pondered - weak and weary - Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded - nearly napping - suddenly there came a tapping - As of some one gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door.

40. Northanger Abbey
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

41. John Webster
Piers Plowman
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion

42. John Stuart Mill
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'

43. 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 Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
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 American - Henry James
The Rise of Silas Lapham

44. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Utopia

45. Henry James
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
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
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'

46. Thoreau - 'Walden'
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

47. Anthony Trollope
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

48. Gerard Manley Hopkins
inscape and instress
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

49. James Joyce
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
The Plough and the Stars
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

50. Henry David Thoreau
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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