GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'


2. John Keats

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3. Honoré de Balzac
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot


4. John Donne

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5. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Laputa
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Castle of Otranto


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

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7. William Butler Yeats

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8. Anthony Trollope
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
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways


9. E.e. cummings

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10. George Eliot
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Amelia Lanyer
Yahoos


11. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
George Orwell real name
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Utopia


12. William Makepeace Thackeray
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Martinus Scriblerus Club
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
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'


13. Thomas Hardy

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14. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable


15. W.E.B. DuBois
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
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
Laputa
'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'


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

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17. Algernon Charles Swinburne

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18. Mary Anne Evans

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19. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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20. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
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
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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'


21. Arthur Rimbaud

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22. T.E. Lawrence
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare


23. George Meredith
Sophocles
'The Jungle'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
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24. Goethe

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25. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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26. Robert Burns

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27. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
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 Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Confessio Amantis


28. Edmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
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'
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'


29. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Houyhnhnms
Hudibras


30. Rudyard Kipling

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31. Andrew Marvell

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


33. Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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


34. Samuel Pepys
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
George Orwell real name


35. Ben Jonson

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36. William Wordsworth

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37. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
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.
George Eliot'S real name


38. Upton Sinclair

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39. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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40. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
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'
Utopia
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing


41. Charles Dickens

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42. Maya Angelou

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43. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Houyhnhnms
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Sophocles


44. John Lydgate
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Plough and the Stars


45. Sense and Sensibility
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Amelia Lanyer
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Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


46. William Congreve
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Piers Plowman
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Way of the World - Love for Love


47. Langston Hughes

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48. Christopher Marlowe
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'


49. Bram Stoker
Dracula
Tamburlaine the Great
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')


50. Thomas Macaulay

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