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1. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo

2. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Lilliput

3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Piers Plowman
The Task - Olney Hyms
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'

4. John Keats
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
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'
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

5. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Lyrical Ballads

6. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Mr. W.H.
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

7. Alexander Pope
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'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'
Tamburlaine the Great

8. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Lyrical Ballads
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Castle of Otranto

9. Vladimir Nabokov
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

10. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times

11. William Congreve
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
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'

12. Henry David Thoreau
Pyramus and Thisbe
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

13. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

14. T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
The Tyger
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

15. Ezra Pound
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

16. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Tamburlaine the Great
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
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.
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman

17. Daniel Defoe
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church

18. Christopher Marlowe
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando

19. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

20. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Lyrical Ballads
Yahoos
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot

21. Rudyard Kipling
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
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--'

22. Sean O'Casey
The Plough and the Stars
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

23. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
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

24. Oscar Wilde
'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
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
George Orwell real name
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

25. Marcel Proust
The Sun Rising
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

26. Malcom Lowry
Under the Volcano
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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

27. Virginia Woolf
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Sophocles
'Incident'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando

28. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
In a fair season when soft was the sun
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Tamburlaine the Great

29. Robert Browning
'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'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
'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 Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter

30. Alfred - Lord Tennyson
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The Oresteia
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')

31. James Boswell
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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'
Mark Twain'S real name

32. John Donne
The Sun Rising
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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

33. William Blake
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'
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.
The Tyger
'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.'

34. Mansfield Park
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana

35. Charlotte Bronte
The Faerie Queene
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

36. Robert Louis Stevenson
inscape and instress
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Utopia

37. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

38. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
The Plough and the Stars

39. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The pathetic fallacy

40. Kate Chopin
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
'Incident'

41. 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.
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Lilliput
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'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

42. Upton Sinclair
'The Jungle'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

43. Honor de Balzac
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
'The Jungle'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'

44. Rainer Maria Rilke
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

45. Henry Fielding
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'

46. Opening of Canterbury Tales
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
'Incident'

47. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Brobdingnag
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

48. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
"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
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

49. Early English translator of Homer
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh
George Chapman
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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'

50. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe
The Playboy of the Western World
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

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