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1. Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
George Chapman

2. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'
Sophocles
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
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 shot heard round the world'

3. Sir Walter Raleigh
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World

4. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
Struldburgs
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
inscape and instress
'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.'

5. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
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
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
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.
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

6. Philip Sidney
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
'The Jungle'

7. John Lyle
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
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Beowulf

8. Jean Genet
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
'The Balcony'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Mark Twain'S real name

9. Dylan Thomas
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
"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 Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

10. John Webster
'The Jungle'
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre

11. T.E. Lawrence
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

12. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrckh
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

13. John Dryden
Pyramus and Thisbe
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit

14. Mark Twain
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Lyrical Ballads
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H

15. Alfred - Lord Tennyson
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'

16. Early English translator of Homer
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'
Pyramus and Thisbe
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
George Chapman

17. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
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
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'

18. John Milton
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
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
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'

19. Sean O'Casey
Le Morte D'Arthur
Piers Plowman
The Plough and the Stars
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

20. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'The shot heard round the world'
inscape and instress
Hudibras

21. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Beowulf
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

22. Robert Burns
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Sophocles

23. E.M. Forster
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--'
Confessio Amantis
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People

24. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Mr. W.H.
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
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 Oresteia

25. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
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'
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'

26. Walt Whitman
The Life of Samuel Johnson
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
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
'This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.'

27. Herman Melville
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

28. Joseph Conrad
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
'The Balcony'
The Playboy of the Western World

29. James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

30. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
The American - Henry James
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

31. John Dos Passos
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
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
Dracula
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)

32. Thomas Macaulay
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'The shot heard round the world'
'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 History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')

33. W.H. Auden
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
The pathetic fallacy
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'

34. Ben Jonson
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
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'
The Tyger
The Task - Olney Hyms

35. Emily Dickinson
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Mysteries of Udolpho
"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
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

36. George Eliot
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Amelia Lanyer

37. 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 Oresteia
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Ambassadors - Henry James

38. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Lilliput
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

39. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
Mark Twain'S real name
'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.'

40. Robert Herrick
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Ambassadors - Henry James

41. John Berryman
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
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

42. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
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'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Le Morte D'Arthur

43. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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 Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'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'
'The shot heard round the world'

44. Mansfield Park
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
'The Jungle'
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'

45. Daniel Defoe
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Rise of Silas Lapham

46. Henry Fielding
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Playboy of the Western World
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

47. J. M. Synge
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Playboy of the Western World
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

48. Lord Byron
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
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.
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana

49. Alexander Pope
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Houyhnhnms
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
"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

50. James Joyce
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

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