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1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2. Marcel Proust
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
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'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours

3. Opening of Canterbury Tales

4. Walt Whitman

5. Kate Chopin

6. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
George Chapman
Tamburlaine the Great
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

7. John Bunyan - 1684

8. Horace Walpole
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Mr. W.H.
Castle of Otranto
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

9. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Laputa
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

10. Dylan Thomas

11. James Joyce

12. Emily Dickinson
"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 Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Piers Plowman
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'

13. Thomas Carlyle
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Confessio Amantis

14. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
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--'
The Faerie Queene

15. Sir Walter Raleigh

16. Jean Genet

17. Goethe

18. Matthew Arnold

19. D.H. Lawrence

20. Nadine Gordimer

21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
inscape and instress

22. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
'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'
George Orwell real name
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'

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

24. Lord Byron

25. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

26. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
'This is the story of an angry man'
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Ambassadors - Henry James

27. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

28. John Dos Passos
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Sun Rising
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Tyger

29. First line of The Iliad

30. Henry James
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

31. George Eliot
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Oresteia
Beowulf
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

32. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Under the Volcano

33. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

34. Anthony Trollope
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
'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 Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'This is the story of an angry man'

35. Robert Louis Stevenson

36. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
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'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo

37. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

38. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
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'
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
"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

39. William Blake
Yahoos
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
Beowulf
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

40. William Congreve
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Utopia
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Struldburgs

41. William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

42. Christopher Marlowe
The Playboy of the Western World
Tamburlaine the Great
'Incident'
'The Jungle'

43. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yahoos
Tamburlaine the Great
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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

44. William Wordsworth

45. Flannery O'Connor
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
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
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
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

46. Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
'To a green thought in a green shade'
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

48. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

49. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

50. Upton Sinclair