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1. Samuel Beckett
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'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.'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'

2. Charles Dickens

3. John Dos Passos
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'

4. William Cowper
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Task - Olney Hyms

5. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
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 Balcony'

6. Mary Anne Evans

7. Thomas Hardy

8. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

9. Sean O'Casey
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'
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The Plough and the Stars
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo

10. Dylan Thomas

11. Jonathan Swift

12. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
The Sun Rising

13. Thoreau - 'Walden'

14. 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 Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The Ambassadors - Henry James

15. William Blake
George Orwell real name
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
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

16. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

17. Samuel Johnson
The pathetic fallacy
The Oresteia
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare

18. Mark Twain

19. Ezra Pound

20. Anton Chekhov
Laputa
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo

21. Edmund Spenser
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Oresteia
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

22. 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
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

23. Ann Radcliffe
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

24. Philip Sidney
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The pathetic fallacy
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'

25. Robert Burns

26. 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
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Sophocles
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Yahoos

27. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Faerie Queene
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
George Orwell real name

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

29. Samuel Butler
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
'Incident'
Hudibras

30. Robert Herrick

31. Herman Melville

32. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned

33. Richard Wright
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

34. Charles Lamb
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
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.
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare

35. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
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
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

36. John Lyle

37. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

38. Eric Arthur Blair
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Things Fall Apart
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
George Orwell real name

39. J. M. Synge
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The American - Henry James
The Playboy of the Western World

40. Nadine Gordimer

41. T.E. Lawrence
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The pathetic fallacy

42. Algernon Charles Swinburne

43. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Beowulf
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Brobdingnag

44. John Dryden
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Yahoos
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

45. Matthew Arnold

46. John Skelton
Sophocles
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
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 Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'

47. Upton Sinclair

48. Opening of Canterbury Tales

49. William Butler Yeats

50. Malcom Lowry
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Under the Volcano
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon