GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Amelia Lanyer
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'


2. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
Struldburgs
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Utopia


3. Henry Fielding
The Tyger
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Dracula


4. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Confessio Amantis
Daisy Miller - Henry James


5. Albert Camus


6. Henry James
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
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess


7. Christopher Marlowe
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'
Mr. W.H.
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Lyrical Ballads


8. Emily Dickinson
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
Struldburgs
'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


9. Gerard Manley Hopkins


10. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray


11. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
inscape and instress
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
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--'


12. Upton Sinclair


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


14. Malcom Lowry
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
'Incident'
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Under the Volcano


15. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Yahoos
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 Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners


16. Christopher Marlowe
'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'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Tamburlaine the Great
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'


17. George Meredith
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
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'


18. William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Faerie Queene
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Struldburgs


19. Andrew Marvell


20. Robert Herrick


21. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
'The Jungle'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Piers Plowman


22. Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'


23. Sean O'Casey
George Chapman
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
The Plough and the Stars


24. 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
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare


25. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
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'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Laputa


26. Philip Sidney
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent


27. Charlotte Perkins Gilman


28. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Hudibras
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing


29. Alan Ginsberg


30. Sir Walter Raleigh


31. 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
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


32. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
George Chapman


33. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
The American - Henry James
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface


34. Ernest Hemingway
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Sophocles
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus


35. Bram Stoker
Dracula
Yahoos
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers


36. Samuel Johnson
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Laputa


37. Emily Bronte


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


39. Langston Hughes


40. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
Brobdingnag
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
The pathetic fallacy


41. Robert Browning


42. 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 snow falling faintly through the universe'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
"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


43. John Berryman
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'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James


44. William Congreve
The Way of the World - Love for Love
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Ambassadors - Henry James


45. John Milton
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
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


46. George Bernard Shaw


47. Countee Cullen


48. Algernon Charles Swinburne


49. Nadine Gordimer


50. John Lyle