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1. Samuel Butler
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Hudibras
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

2. James Joyce

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

5. Early English translator of Homer
George Chapman
George Eliot'S real name
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'

6. Kate Chopin

7. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
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
inscape and instress
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

8. Samuel Johnson
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Martinus Scriblerus Club

9. Henry James
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
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

10. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Oresteia
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Lyrical Ballads

11. James Joyce

12. T.S. Eliot

13. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
'The shot heard round the world'
In a fair season when soft was the sun

14. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
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
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory

15. Flannery O'Connor
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
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
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

16. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)

17. Rudyard Kipling

18. Salman Rushdie

19. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'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 Tyger
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island

20. John Donne
Martinus Scriblerus Club
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Sun Rising
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'

21. E.e. cummings

22. William Makepeace Thackeray
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Tyger

23. Honoré de Balzac
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'

24. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
Struldburgs
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell

25. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Lilliput
Mid-seventeenth century diarist

26. 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 Way of the World - Love for Love
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

27. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
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--'
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
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Pyramus and Thisbe

28. Oscar Wilde

29. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

30. Christopher Marlowe
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 Jungle'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

31. William Cowper
The Task - Olney Hyms
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'
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'
Sophocles

32. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

33. Walt Whitman

34. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
'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'
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'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner

35. John Milton
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 Ambassadors - Henry James
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
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

36. Gertrude Stein

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

38. Mark Twain

39. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

40. Dylan Thomas

41. John Stuart Mill

42. John Berryman
The American - Henry James
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
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
'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'

43. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Mr. W.H.

44. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
The Tyger
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

45. John Skelton
Tamburlaine the Great
'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 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
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

46. George Meredith
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'
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

47. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

48. Countee Cullen

49. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Oresteia
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

50. William Carlos Williams