GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans


2. William Cowper
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
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Task - Olney Hyms
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair


3. Algernon Charles Swinburne

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4. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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5. Dylan Thomas

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6. Gertrude Stein

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7. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The pathetic fallacy
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
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 (


8. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Lilliput


9. First line of The Iliad

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10. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

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11. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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12. Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Mark Twain'S real name
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando


13. Washington Irving

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14. Charles Dickens

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15. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England

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16. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
The Faerie Queene
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget


17. Jonathan Swift

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18. W.E.B. DuBois
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
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
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


19. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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20. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)


21. Salman Rushdie

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22. Elizabeth Gaskell
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte


23. William Blake
'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'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
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
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'


24. John Fenimore Cooper
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Houyhnhnms


25. George Meredith
The American - Henry James
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'


26. 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 Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James


27. George Orwell
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia


28. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Tyger
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James


29. Andrew Marvell

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30. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Struldburgs
The Ambassadors - Henry James


31. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'


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

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33. D.H. Lawrence

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34. John Lyle

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35. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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36. William Blake
The Playboy of the Western World
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
'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.'
The Tyger


37. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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
The Task - Olney Hyms
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot


38. Lord Byron

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39. William Wordsworth

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40. William Dean Howells
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Rise of Silas Lapham
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'


41. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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42. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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43. Robert Herrick

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44. Herman Melville

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45. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


46. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land

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47. Maya Angelou

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48. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Faerie Queene


49. Northanger Abbey
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 Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Things Fall Apart
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe


50. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Utopia
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance