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1. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
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'
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'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Lyrical Ballads
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')

4. J. M. Synge
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
The Playboy of the Western World
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
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. Langston Hughes
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'

6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

7. Jean Genet
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
'The Balcony'

8. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
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
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
'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.'

9. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
'Incident'
Brobdingnag
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

10. Walt Whitman
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

11. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Things Fall Apart
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

12. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'
Utopia
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

13. Nadine Gordimer
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Yahoos

14. Virginia Woolf
'The shot heard round the world'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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

15. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh

16. Henry David Thoreau
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

17. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Amelia Lanyer
Yahoos

18. 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
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Confessio Amantis
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter

19. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners
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'
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

20. Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Amelia Lanyer
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners

21. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
The Sun Rising
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'

22. Thoreau - 'Walden'
Beowulf
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
George Eliot'S real name
The Task - Olney Hyms

23. Robert Louis Stevenson
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
Utopia
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

24. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Brobdingnag
The Playboy of the Western World
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit

25. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Confessio Amantis
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'

26. Thomas Carlyle
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Playboy of the Western World
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

27. William Dean Howells
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'
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre

28. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Mark Twain'S real name
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Beowulf

29. William Congreve
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
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'

30. Eugene O'Neill
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
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

31. Washington Irving
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
The Tyger

32. Samuel Butler
Yahoos
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Hudibras
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

33. Emily Dickinson
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
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
Daisy Miller - Henry James
"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

34. Albert Camus
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
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

35. Richard Wright
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest
'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.'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

36. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
'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.'
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
inscape and instress
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'

37. John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
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
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

38. Edmund Spenser - 1590
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
The Faerie Queene

39. 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'
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

40. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
Utopia
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Yahoos

41. Gerard Manley Hopkins
inscape and instress
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

42. Anthony Trollope
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Piers Plowman
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Mysteries of Udolpho

43. Bram Stoker
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Dracula

44. Ben Jonson
The Ambassadors - Henry James
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
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'

45. Edith Wharton
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
'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 House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

46. Andrew Marvell
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
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
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner

47. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon

48. Robert Browning
Daisy Miller - Henry James
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
'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'
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog

49. Mansfield Park
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion

50. John Bunyan - 1684
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

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