GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Wise Blood - The Violent Bear it Away - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - A Good Man is Hard to Find - Everything that Rises Must Converge - The Complete Stories
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget


2. Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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3. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Confessio Amantis
Laputa
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Daisy Miller - Henry James


4. William Wordsworth

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5. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
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
Pyramus and Thisbe
Brobdingnag
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'


6. John Dos Passos
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
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
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--'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'


7. 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
Laputa
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans


8. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
Piers Plowman
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
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


9. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
'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.'
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


10. Herman Melville

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11. Samuel Butler
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Hudibras
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider


12. Marcel Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Things Fall Apart


13. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Laputa
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'


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

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15. Anton Chekhov
Le Morte D'Arthur
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'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard


16. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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17. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Beowulf
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory


18. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
Yahoos
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times


19. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Utopia
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
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


20. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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21. Edith Wharton
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
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter


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

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23. Henry David Thoreau

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24. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Beowulf
Sophocles
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent


25. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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26. Maya Angelou

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27. Emily Bronte

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28. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Way of the World - Love for Love
George Orwell real name


29. 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
Yahoos
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Houyhnhnms
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)


30. John Bunyan - 1684

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31. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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32. Vladimir Nabokov
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)


33. Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
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'
Houyhnhnms
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider


34. John Keats

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35. Edmund Spenser
Piers Plowman
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
'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


36. Washington Irving

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37. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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38. William Faulkner

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39. Sir Walter Raleigh

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40. 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 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 Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
'This is the story of an angry man'
Houyhnhnms


41. Salman Rushdie

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42. Charles Lamb
'The Jungle'
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
inscape and instress


43. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'


44. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

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45. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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46. John Donne
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
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
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
The Sun Rising


47. James Joyce

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48. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land

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49. Lord Byron

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50. Henry Fielding
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
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'