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1. First line of The Iliad

2. William Carlos Williams

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

4. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
'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.'
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'

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
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'

7. John Donne

8. John Lyle

9. Oscar Wilde

10. William Blake
The American - Henry James
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Tyger
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

11. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
George Chapman
Beowulf
Lilliput
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana

12. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
Things Fall Apart
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

13. Early English translator of Homer
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
George Chapman
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

14. Mark Twain

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

16. Samuel Pepys
'Incident'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
"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

17. Mary Anne Evans

18. Northanger Abbey
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
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'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe

19. John Dryden
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Oresteia
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

20. Samuel Beckett
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit

21. Upton Sinclair

22. T.S. Eliot

23. James Baldwin
Struldburgs
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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--'

24. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
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
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
In a fair season when soft was the sun

25. George Orwell
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
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Houyhnhnms

26. Flannery O'Connor
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
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 Playboy of the Western World
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

27. Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell real name
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana

28. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
Confessio Amantis
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
The Oresteia

29. Gerard Manley Hopkins
inscape and instress
Tamburlaine the Great
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

30. William Butler Yeats

31. Samuel Johnson
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
'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
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

32. Lord Byron

33. Horace Walpole
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Castle of Otranto
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Martinus Scriblerus Club

34. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The pathetic fallacy
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

35. Sense and Sensibility
Amelia Lanyer
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'

36. J. M. Synge
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Playboy of the Western World
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory

37. Arthur Rimbaud

38. Honoré de Balzac
The Oresteia
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
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'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

39. Richard Wright
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Daisy Miller - Henry James

40. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

41. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Beowulf
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Go Down - Moses - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - Absalom - Absalom! - Light in August - 'A Rose for Emily' - 'Red Leaves' - 'That Evening Sun' - and 'Dry September'

42. Thoreau - 'Walden'

43. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

44. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
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.
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

45. John Berryman
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Lilliput
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new

46. Follows trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fiancee'S supposedly wayward son - Chad Newsome. Strether is to bring the young man back to the family business - but he encounters unexpected complications. The t
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The Ambassadors - Henry James
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon

47. Herman Melville

48. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
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'

49. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

50. Thomas Macaulay